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Representative  men  and  Gomes, 

Quittcy,  Illinois. 


PRESS  OF  VOLK,  JONES  &  MCMEIN, 
QUINCY,  ILLINOIS. 


THE   EARLY  PIONEERS. 


A  BOOK  OF  BIOGRAPHY  for  the  Quincy  of  to-day,  the  story  of  the  lives  of  the 
representative  men  of  1899,  would  be  incomplete  without  suitable  reference  to  the 
representative  men  of  yesterday,  those  who  contributed  so  largely  towards  making 
this  city  one  of  the  most  progressive  and  prosperous  places  in  the  entire  country.  Of 
those  who  have  passed  away  many  were  eminent  in  the  councils  of  the  state  and  nation. 
Ford,  Carlin  and  Wood  were  governors  of  Illinois;  Young,  Browning  and  Richardson 
served  with  distinction  in  the  United  States  Senate;  Morgan  became  a  Major-General  in 
the  war  of  the  rebellion;  Singleton  and  Anderson  were  prominent  in  the  House  of 
Representatives.  Of  the  early  pioneers  a  most  interesting  book  could  be  written.  Ex-Gov. 
John  Wood,  the  founder  of  Quincy,  first  visited  this  locality  in  the  spring  of  1821.  In  the 
fall  of  the  following  year  he  built  a  log  cabin  near  the  foot  of  Delaware  street,  the  first 
house  on  the  present  site  of  the  city.  Major  Jeremiah  Rose,  with  his  family,  resided  with 
him  for  some  time.  Willard  Keyes,  who  came  here  in  1824,  built  the  second  cabin.  There 
were  also  here  previous  to  1826,  Judge  Henry  H.  Snow,  George  W.  Berrian,  Earl  Pierce, 
Daniel  Lisle,  Levi  Wells,  Levi  Hadley,  Joshua  Streeter,  Asher  Anderson,  Daniel  Whipple, 
Peter  Journey,  Samuel  Stone,  Silas  Brooks,  Rufus  Brown  and  Robert  Tillson.  Asher 
Anderson  opened  the  first  store  in  Quincy,  in  1826,  and  Robert  Tillson  and  Charles  Holmes 
the  second  store,  in  1828.  D.  G.  Whitney,  Richard  S.  Green  and  John  W.  McFadon  were 
also  among  the  earliest  merchants,  and  John  E.  Jeffries  built  the  first  hotel,  the  old  Land 
Office  Hotel.  Amzi  C.  Root  and  Timothy  Rogers  were  among  the  early  wagon  makers; 
Adam  Schmitt  and  Frederick  W.  Jansen  the  first  cabinet  makers;  Anton  Delabar  the  first 
brewer;  Michael  Mast  and  J.  P.  Bert  the  first  merchant  tailors.  Of  those  who  located 
here  previous  to  1834  were  John  McDade,  Levi  B.  Allen,  N.  Pease,  N.  Summers,  Charles 
Brown,  Joseph  N.  Ralston,  Archibald  Williams,  Harrison  Dills,  Francis  C.  Moore,  Lorenzo 
Bull,  James  D.  Morgan,  Edward  Wells,  Henry  Asbury,  Joel  Benton,  William  Dickhut, 
John  L.  Moore.  Others  who  came  in  the  earlier  days  were  C.  M.  Pomroy,  U.  S.  Penfield, 

KAmos  Green,  John  Wheeler,  Thomas  Jasper,  James  M.  Pitman,  James  Adams,  S.  M.  Bartlett, 
J.  K.  VanDoorn,  H.  V.  Sullivan,  Allen  and  Enoch  Comstock,  Henry  Root,  Charles  A. 
i/v     t>w  Savage,  John  Byrd  Young,  Charles  H.  Bull,  C.  A.  Warren,  George  Adams,  R.  S.  Benneson, 

Thomas  Pope,  H.  F.  J.  Ricker,  E.  K.  Stone,  James  Arthur,  B.  I.  Chatten,  N.  Bushnell, 

.  -  Thomas  Redmond,  Charles  Maertz,  Paul  Konantz,  A.  C.  Root,  L.  Kingman,  Leonard 

Schmitt,  S.  P.  Church,  Wm.  T.  Taylor,  Wm.  Dickhut,  James  T.  Baker,  Dr.  Michael 
Doway,  Sylvester  Thayer,  Samuel  Holmes,  Ebenezer  Moore,  Enoch  Conyers. 

It  was  on  the  foundation  laid  by  these  men  that  this  prosperous  and  beautiful  city  has 
been  built.  Nearly  all  of  them  have  passed  away,  leaving  honored  names  and  a  record  of 
earnest  effort  faithfully  performed.  Some  of  them  are  still  living  to  enjoy  with  the  men 
of  to-day  the  abundant  harvest  of  their  early  planting.  They  have  witnessed  the  gradual 
development  of  Quincy  until  it  has  become  the  metropolis  of  the  central  Mississippi 
Valley,  and  of  the  representative  men  of  the  Quincy  of  to-day  none  are  more  highly 
honored  than  the  early  pioneers. 


COMPILED  AND  PUBLISHED 

— BY — 
DAVID    F.    WIIjCOX, 

QUINCY,  ILLINOIS, 
1899. 


REPRESENTATIVE  BUSINESS  MEN. 


In  the  active  business  life  of  Mr.  Lorenzo  Bull 
is  embraced  the  history  of  Quincy  almost  from 
the  beginning,  reaching  back  as  it  does  more 
than  sixty-six  years.  With  the  early  develop- 
ment of  the  city  and  with  its  growth  and  prog- 
ress he  has  been  closely  identified,  contributing 
very  largely  towards  making  Quincy  one  of  the 


stitutions,  he  is  also  one  of  the  founders  and 
most  generous  supporters.  In  term  of  years  his 
active  business  experience  exceeds  that  of  any 
other  resident  of  Quincy,  and  his  unfailing  judg- 
ment of  .men  and  events,  his  rare  foresight  and 
his  comprehensive  grasp  of  conditions  and  sit- 
uations, have  made  him  a  recognized  leader  in 


MR.  IX>RENZO    BTJiLL,. 


most  prosperous  and  progressive  cities  of  the 
west.  While  he  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the 
great  banking  business  of  which  he  was  for 
nearly  forty  years  the  head,  he  is  also  one  of  the 
founders  of  the  street  railway  and  the  water 
works  systems,  he  was  an  important  factor  in 
the  early  railway  developments  of  this  section 
of  the  west,  and  has  also  been  identified  with 
other  public  and  private  business  enterprises 
which  have  been  of  paramount  importance  to 
the  city  at  large.  At  one  time,  about  the  year 
1865,  he  was  the  president  of  five  different  busi- 
ness corporations.  Of  many  of  the  essential 
charitable  and  philanthropic  movements  and  in- 


this  community  from  the  first.  Mr.  Bull  was 
born  in  Hartford,  Conn.,  March  21,  1819,  and  is 
a  direct  descendant  of  the  Puritans,  his  ances- 
tors on  both  sides  having  been  of  the  party  who, 
under  the  leadership  of  the  Rev.  Thomas 
Hooker,  settled  Hartford,  Conn.,  in  1634.  His 
educational  advantages  were  limited,  being  con- 
fined to  the  district  schools,  but  an  excellent 
fund  of  general  knowledge  was  crowded  into 
his  earlier  years.  When  fourteen  years  of  age 
he  decided  to  come  west,  locating  in  Quincy 
May  11,  1833,  the  journey  occupying  more  than 
a  month.  Dependent  entirely  on  his  own  efforts 
for  support,  he  secured  a  position  in  the  office 


REPRESENTATIVE  MEN  AND  HOMES. 


of  Judge  Henry  H.  Snow,  who  then  held  most 
of  the  county  offices,  being  at  one  time  re- 
corder, clerk  of  the  circuit  court,  clerk  of  the 
county  commissioner's  court,  judge  of  probate, 
notary  public  and  justice  of  the  peace.  On  a 
salary  of  $6  per  month  for  the  first  year  and  $10 
per  month  the  second  year,  the  young  clerk 
kept  almost  all  of  the  records  and  prepared 
nearly  all  of  the  papers  for  these  various  offices. 
At  the  age  of  sixteen  years  he  secured  a  situa- 
tion in  the  general  store  of  Holmes,  Brown  & 
Co.,  at  that  time  the  leading  mercantile  firm  of 
this  section,  and  he  remained  in  this  store 
through  the  various  changes  in  ownership — S.  & 
S.  Holmes,  Holmes  &  Co.,  Holmes  &  Wood— 
until  1844.  It  was  then  that  he  formed  a  part- 
nership with  his  brother  under  the  firm  name  of 
L.  &  C.  H.  Bull,  a  business  title  that  has  been 
continued  for  more  than  half  a  century.  The 
new  firm  opened  a  store  for  the  sale  of  hard- 
ware and  crockery,  succeeding  to  the  former 
location  of  Holmes  &  Wood.  In  1849  they  built 
the  building  now  occupied  by  Clark  &  Morgan, 
adding  to  their  stock  agricultural  machinery 
and  farming  implements,  then  first  being  intro- 
duced. Quincy  was  for  many  years  the  market 
for  a  wide  extent  of  territory  on  both  sides  of 
the  river,  and  their  store  enjoyed  a  large  and 
steadily  increasing  patronage.  In  1861  they  sold 
out  their  mercantile  business  to  engage  in  bank- 
ing, at  the  corner  of  Fifth  and  Maine  streets. 
The  stability  of  the  banking  house  of  L.  &  C.  H. 
Bull  was  never  questioned.  Through  periods  of 
general  business  depression,  panics  and  com- 
mercial revulsions  that  swept  over  the  country 
from  time  to  time,  the  business  of  this  bank 
steadily  increased  under  the  wise  and  conserva- 
tive management  of  Mr.  Bull  and  his  associate 
officers,  until  in  1893  it  was  reorganized  under 
state  charter  as  the  State  Savings,  Loan  and 
Trust  Company,  with  a  capital  of  $300,000.  Mr. 
Bull  was  the  first  president  of  the  reorganized 
bank  and  continued  in  that  office  until  the  con- 
solidation with  the  First  National  Bank  last 
January,  when  he  relinquished  the  cares  of  the 
position  and  withdrew  from  active  business. 
Under  his  administration  the  present  bank 
building,  one  of  the  finest  in  the  entire  West, 
was  built,  the  assets  of  the  bank  had  been  in- 
creased to  over  $3,000,000,  and  it  had  become  one 


of  the  leading  banking  houses  of  the  country. 
Mr.  Bull  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  street 
railway  company  and  was  the  president  for 
about  twenty  years.  He  is  also  one  of  the  early 
proprietors  and  managers  of  the  present  water 
works  system,  conceded  to  be  one  of  the  best  in 
the  entire  country,  all  of  the  water  being  filtered 
and  chemically  pure.  The  early  railroad  devel- 
opments of  this  section  of  the  state  form  a  most 
interesting  chapter  of  history,  and  with  this 
important  work  Mr.  Bull  was  actively  identi- 
fied. Under  the  internal  improvement  system 
inaugurated  by  the  state  in  1837,  various  lines 
of  railroad  were  prescribed  by  the  state  legisla- 
ture, among  them  the  Northern  Cross  Railroad, 
extending  from  Quincy  to  Danville.  Under  this 
system  the  construction  of  several  roads  was 
commenced,  but  in  the  course  of  three  or  four 
years  the  system  was  abandoned  as  a  failure, 
about  $14,000,000  having  been  expended,  or  lost, 
with  not  one  mile  of  completed  road  to  show 
for  it.  Then  followed  other  failures,  until  in 
1851,  Mr.  Bull,  with  Messrs.  Nehemiah  Bushnell, 
Hiram  Rogers,  James  N.  Pitman  and  Gen.  Mor- 
gan, took  hold  of  the  Northern  Cross  as  direc- 
tors. The  new  board  of  directors  soon  found  it 
more  desirable  to  build  a  road  towards  Gales- 
burg  to  connect  with  a  railway  extending  from 
Galesburg  to  Chicago.  They  devoted  themselves 
to  this  project  for  five  years,  and  in  the  latter 
part  of  January,  1856,  the  line  from  Quincy  to 
Galesburg  was  finished,  the  road  from  Gales- 
burg  to  Chicago  being  completed  in  the  mean- 
time. Mr.  Bull  made  the  first  trip  e\er  made 
from  Quincy  to  Chicago  in  twenty-four  hours. 
Before  the  road  was  completed,  pending  nego- 
tiations required  his  presence  in  the  east  at  a 
given  time.  He  rode  on  a  special  engine  to 
Hill's  Grove,  went  from  there  to  Galesburg  in 
a  buggy  and  from  Galesburg  to  Chicago  by  train, 
making  the  required  connection  in  Chicago  for 
the  east.  Mr.  Bull  was  one  of  the  early  trustees 
of  Woodland  Orphan  Home.  He  was  the  first 
secretary  of  the  public  Library  Association  at 
its  organization  in  1840,  and  has  been  active  in 
the  Associated  Charities,  the  Humane  Society, 
and  other  practical  and  efficient  organizations 
for  the  relief  of  the  needy,  and  to  them  all  he 
is  a  most  generous  contributor.  His  benefac- 
tions are  bestowed  in  a  most  unostentatious 
manner,  and  the  record  of  his  broad  charity 
will  never  be  written. 


REPRESENTATIVE  MEN  AND  HOMES. 


WILLIAM  S.  WARFIELD. 


Mr.  William  S.  Warfleld,  president  of  the 
State  Savings,  Loan  and  Trust  Company,  is 
prominent  not  only  in  banking  and  financial 
circles  of  the  west,  but  also  in  the  jobbing  trade 
and  manufacturing  business  as  well.  He  is 
president  of  the  Warfield  Grocer  Company  of 
this  city,  and  president  of  the  Warfield-Pratt- 
Howell  Company  of  Iowa,  one  of  the  strongest 
concerns  in  this  line  of  business  in  the  west, 


electric  street  car  systems  to  be  found  in  any 
western  city.  He  has  been  active  in  every  rail- 
way project,  in  the  movement  for  locating  the 
Soldiers'  Home  here,  in  the  Newcomb  Hotel  and 
Empire  Theater  companies,  the  building  of  the 
Public  Library,  in  the  maintenance  of  Blessing 
Hospital,  Woodland  Orphan  Home  and  other 
worthy  charities.  Of  his  means  and  of  his  time 
and  ability  he  has  given  Mberally  to  innumer- 


having  a  paid-up  capital  of  $500,000  and  oper- 
ating leading  houses  at  Des  Moines,  Cedar 
Rapids  and  Sioux  City.  He  is  also  president  of 
the  Wellman  &  Dwire  Tobacco  Company  of  St. 
Louis,  and  is  actively  interested  in  other  impor- 
tant enterprises.  Mr.  Warfield  is  an  eminent 
representative  of  the  pushing,  progressive  busi- 
ness men  of  to-day,  the  successful  men  of  affairs 
who  conduct  extensive  undertakings,  and  no 
man  in  Quincy  has  done  more  than  he  to  give 
this  city  the  enviable  reputation  which  it  enjoys 
in  the  commercial  and  financial  circles  of  the 
country.  For  a  third  of  a  century  he  has  been 
identified  with  the  progress  of  Quincy,  durinj 
all  of  that  time  being  one  of  the  most  active 
promoters  of  every  important  public  movement. 
Ten  years  ago  he  gave  to  the  city  rapid  transit, 
purchasing  the  street  railway  system,  rebuilding 
and  extending  the  lines  and  introducing  one  of 
the  best  managed  and  most  thoroughly  equipped 


able  enterprises  for  the  improvement  and  bet- 
terment of  Quincy. 

f  Mr.  Warfield  was  born  at  Bridgeport,  Ohio, 
his  father,  John  Warfield,  being  an  old  resident 
of  the  Buckeye  state  and  a  most  successful  busi- 
ness man.  When  a  young  man  the  son  first 
engaged  in  the  wholesale  grocery  trade  at 
Bridgeport,  coming  to  Quincy  in  1836  and  estab- 
lishing the  business  now  conducted  by  the 
Warfield  Grocer  Company.  He  was  president 
of  the  First  National  Bank  for  many  years,  and 
when  it  was  consolidated  with  the  State  Sav- 
ings, Loan  and  Trust  Company  he  became 
president  of  that  bank,  the  strongest  financial 
institution  in  the  state,  outside  of  Chicago,  its 
assets  exceeding  $3,000,000.  Public  spirited, 
genial  and  approachable,  Mr.  Warfield  is  a  man 
among  men,  and  no  citizen  of  Quincy  enjoys 
the  confidence  and  respect  of  the  community  in 
higher  degree, 


REPRESENTATIVE  MEN  AND  HOMES. 


ROBERT  W.  GARDNER. 


Mr.  Gardner  was  the  youngest  son  of  James 
Gardner,  Esq.,  of  Edinburgh,  Scotland,  who  dur- 
ing his  life  filled  many  important  positions  in 
the  English  government  and  was  the  associate 
of  many  of  the  scientific  men  of  his  time,  includ- 
ing such  eminent  men  as  Robert  Stevenson,  Col. 
Cubit,  Sir  Roderic  Murchison,  and  also  Lieut. 
Maury  of  this  country.  He  had  charge  of  the 
first  complete  trignometrical  survey  of  Great 
Britain,  and  later  was  agent  of  the  ordnance 


ematics,  was  dated  May  13,  1849,  and  now,  fifty 
years  after,  will  be  read  with  interest: 

Edinburgh,  May  13,  1849.— I  hereby  certify 
that  Mr.  Robert  Gardner  attended  my  math- 
ematical classes  from  May,  1847,  to  August,  1848, 
during  which  period  he  prosecuted  his  studies 
very  diligently  and  successfully.  He  is  well 
acquainted  with  the  elements  of  geometry  and 
algebra  and  with  their  more  important  applica- 
tion to  mensuration,  surveying  and  engineering. 
His  abilities  as  draughtsman  are  of  the  highest 


department  of  the  government,  with  headquar- 
ters in  the  Tower  of  London.  He  was  also 
employed  on  scientific  work  by  the  French  gov- 
ernment during  the  reign  of  Louis  XVII.,  and 
was  one  of  the  great  scientists  of  the  day. 

Mr.  R.  W.  Gardner  was  born  in  London,  Feb. 
18,  1832,  but  at  a  very  early  age  was  taken  to 
Scotland,  where  he  received  his  education, 
spending  the  last  two  years  attending  classes  at 
the  University  of  Edinburgh,  and  during  this 
time  was  also  a  student  at  the  Royal  School  of 
Design.  In  1849,  being  disappointed  in  receiving 
an  expected  appointment,  he  came  to  this  coun- 
try, and  taking  advice  to  go  west,  settled  near 
Rushville,  where  he  spent  some  time  teaching  a 
country  school.  He  went  back  to  Scotland  in 
1851,  but  changes  had  taken  place  and  he  soon 
returned.  When  he  first  left  Edinburgh  he 
came  with  but  little  money  and  one  recom- 
mendation. It  was  from  the  professor  of  math- 


order,  and  consequently  his  plans  of  surveys 
are  executed  with  great  accuracy  and  elegance. 
It  is  also  consistent  with  my  knowledge  that 
he  has  shown  promise  of  becoming  an  able  land- 
scape painter,  from  the  specimen  I  have  seen  in 
the  exhibition  of  paintings  in  the  Royal  Ins'ti- 
tute  here.  He,  therefore,  in  my  opinion,  cannot 
fail  to  be  successful  in  any  profession  where  a 
knowledge  of  such  branches  of  a  finished  educa- 
tion are  required.  I  can  only  add  that  I  had 
every  reason  to  be  fully  satisfied  with  his 
general  good  conduct  while  he  was  under  my 
tuition,  and  to  wish  him  that  success  in  the 
world  to  which  his  abilities  justly  entitle  him. 

WILLIAM  GALBRAITH,  M.  A.,  F.  R.  A.  S., 
Teacher  of  Mathematics,  etc. 

On  Sept.  1,  1852,  Mr.  Gardner  came  to  Quincy, 
but  could  find  no  position  either  as  draughtsman 
or  teacher  of  art,  and  being  compelled  to  do 
something,  apprenticed  himself  to  Mr.  Edward 
G.  Turner  in  order  to  learn  the  practical  side  of 
mechanics,  Mr.  Turner  having  a  small  machine 
shop  on  Sixth  street,  between  Maine  and  Hamp- 


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REPRESENTATIVE  MEN  AND  HOMES. 


shire  streets.  In  1854  he  secured  an  excellent 
position  with  an  engine-building  firm  in  Alton, 
but  soon  returned  to  Quincy  and  with  Mr.  Henry 
Mitchell  purchased  the  Turner  shops.  After  the 
death  of  Mr.  Mitchell  he  was  associated  with 
Mr.  John  Robertson  and  in  time  acquired  the 
entire  interest  in  the  business.  During  the 
year  1859  Mr.  Gardner's  attention  was  given 
especially  to  improving  the  governor  of  the 
steam  engine,  taking  out  his  first  patent  Aug. 
14,  1860.  In  1883  the  Gardner  Governor  Com- 
pany was  incorporated,  and  since  the  year  1870 
the  manufacture  of  steam  engine  governors  has 
been  conducted  as  a  specialty.  A  complete 
record  of  every  governor  sold,  with  full  details 
of  particulars,  has  been  kept,  the  number  up  to 
the  beginning  of  the  present  year  reaching 
nearly  140,000.  These  governors  have  been  in- 
troduced and  sold  in  nearly  every  country  in 
the  world,  and  can  be  found  in  South  Africa, 
Japan,  Australia,  Island  of  Madagascar  and 
other  remote  places.  Stocks  of  governors  are 
carried  by  agencies  in  London,  Berlin,  Brussels. 
Amsterdam,  Copenhagen,  Antwerp  and  other 
European  cities.  The  works  of  the  Gardner 
Governor  Company  are  the  largest  special  gov- 


ernor works  in  the  world  at  the  present  time. 
The  invention  and  perfection  of  this  governor 
has  placed  Mr.  Gardner  in  the  front  rank  of 
American  inventors.  He  has  been  accorded 
merited  recognition  by  leading  mechanical 
societies  of  this  country  and  Europe  and  is  as 
widely  known  abroad  as  in  his  own  country. 
The  delicate  and  intricate  governing  mechan- 
ism for  the  great  Yerkes'  telescope  was  designed 
by  Mr.  Gardner,  and  in  many  other  directions 
has  his  inventive  genius  and  mechanical  skill 
been  demonstrated. 

While  Mr.  Gardner  has  given  very  close  atten- 
tion to  his  business,  he  has  interested  himself 
in  several  charitable  organizations  of  the  city. 
He  is  president  of  Blessing  Hospital,  a  trustee 
of  Woodland  Orphan  Home  and  the  Associated 
Charities,  and  was  also  interested  in  establish- 
ing the  Free  Public  Library.  In  these  institu- 
tions he  has  been  an  active  and  most  efficient 
worker  and  one  of  the  most  liberal  supporters. 
In  Sunday-school  work  he  is  widely  know,n  and 
has  been  superintendent  of  the  Vermont  Street 
Baptist  Sunday-school  for  thirty-five  years.  The 
influence  of  his  active,  useful,  helpful  life  is  all 
for  good. 


JOHN  M.  LEWIS. 

Active  and  energetic  in  business  affairs,  enter- 
prising and  progressive  in  everything  that  tends 
to  promote  the  well-being  of  the  city,  frank  and 
outspoken  at  all  times,  Mr.  John  M.  Lewis  is  a 
fair  type  of  the  successful  business  men  of 
Quincy.  While  he  attends  strictly  to  the  large 
and  important  business  of  the  jobbing  house 
with  which  he  is  identified,  he  ranks  as  one  of 
Quincy's  public-spirited  citizens,  always  ready 
to  contribute  his  full  share  in  every  movement 
for  the  public  good.  Mr.  Lewis  comes  of  Vir- 
ginia stock,  but  was  born  in  Indiana,  his  father 
having  been  a  resident  of  that  state  for  many 
years.  In  early  life  he  represented  an  Indian- 
apolis house  on  the  road  and  afterwards  en- 
gaged in  merchandising.  He  came  to  this  city 
in  1882  and  three  years  later,  with  Mr.  L.  B. 
Bartlett,  established  the  Quincy  Casket  Com- 
pany, of  which  he  has  since  been  the  manager. 
The  business  of  this  house  has  been  extended  to 
all  the  territory  tributary  to  Quincy  and  it  now 
takes  prominent  rank  in  the  trade. 


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REPRESENTATIVE  MEN  AND  HOMES. 


RICHARD  F.  NEWCOMB. 


In  the  broadest  sense  Mr.  R.  F.  Newcomb, 
president  of  the  American  Straw  Board  Com- 
pany, is  one  of  Quincy's  representative  men. 
For  more  than  twenty-five  years  he  has  been 
prominently  identified  with  every  important 
public  enterprise,  and  his  keen  judgment,  un- 
usual energy  and  broad  public  spirit  have 
contributed  largely  towards  the  material  ad- 
vancement of  the  city.  In  addition  to  establish- 
ing and  developing  one  of  the  leading  industries 


gaged  in  the  saw  mill  business  and  in  farming. 
When  the  second  call  for  volunteers  was  made 
during  the  early  part  of  the  war,  he  enlisted  as 
sergeant  of  Company  A,  Fifty-second  Massa- 
chusetts Infantry,  Sept.  9,  1862.  His  first  service 
was  with  Banks'  expedition,  his  regiment  being 
the  first  to  march  into  Port  Hudson  after  the 
surrender.  For  some  months  he  served  on  the 
brigade  staff,  having  charge  of  the  ordnance 
supplies  and  later  of  the  entire  medical  stores. 


of  Quincy,  a  business  that  attained  national 
importance  and  of  which  he  has  become  the 
executive  head,  he  has  been  a  leading  factor  in 
many  enterprises  of  greatest  importance  to  the 
city  at  large.  Among  the  active,  aggressive  and 
successful  business  men  of  the  west,  the  men 
of  affairs  who  deal  with  large  interests,  Mr. 
Newcomb  occupies  a  prominent  place  and  is 
widely  known.  Born  at  Bernardston,  Mass., 
Sept.  20,  1837,  he  was  fitted  for  college  at  Willis- 
ton  Seminary,  but  his  natural  aptitude  for 
commercial  affairs  induced  him  to  accept  a 
position  in  a  hardware  house  in  Boston  when 
he  was  sixteen  years  old,  where  he  remained 
for  three  or  four  years.  He  then  returned  to 
his  native  town  to  take  charge  of  his  father's 
mercantile  business,  his  father  being  also  en- 


On  leaving  the  service  he  conducted  his  father's 
store  for  a  time,  and  in  August,  1866,  located 
at  Beloit,  Wis.,  where  he  engaged  in  the  paper- 
making  business.  The  year  following  the 
Northwest  Paper  Company  was  organized,  Mr. 
Newcomb  being  the  vice-president,  and  an  ex- 
tensive wholesale  paper  house  was  established 
in  Chicago.  With  their  mill  at  Beloit  and  their 
house  in  Chicago  this  was  one  of  the  leading 
concerns  in  the  paper  trade  of  the  west.  The 
company  was  burned  out  in  the  great  Chicago 
fire  of  1871,  and  with  his  brother  Mr.  NewcomD 
came  to  Quincy  and  bought  the  paper  mill  here, 
starting  it  up  in  April,  1872,  under  the  firm 
name  of  Newcomb  Bros.  Two  years  later  he 
sold  his  interest  in  the  Northwest  Paper  Com- 
pany to  his  brother  and  became  the  sole  owner 


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REPRESENTATIVE  MEN  AND  HOMES. 


of  the  Quincy  plant,  which  he  conducted  with 
signal  success.  In  1880  the  Quincy  Paper  Com- 
pany was  organized,  with  Mr.  Newcomb  as  the 
head,  and  the  business  was  increased  until  the 
plant  has  become  the  second  largest  straw- 
board  mill  in  the  country.  In  1889  it  was 
absorbed  by  the  American  Straw  Board  Com- 
pany. Of  this  extensive  organization  Mr. 
Newcomb  has  been  one  of  the  controlling  pow- 
ers from  the  first,  and  for  the  past  two  years  he 
has  held  the  office  of  president.  The  develop- 
ment of  this  important  industry  to  its  present 
immense  proportions  is  due  very  largely  to  his 
rare  foresight  and  his  unusual  executive  and 
business  ability.  One  of  the  first  to  appreciate 
the  possibilities  of  this  branch  of  business,  he 
has  become  the  important  factor  in  the  man- 
agement of  many  mills  throughout  the  country, 
and  he  is  as  well  known  in  all  the  commercial 
and  financial  centers  as  he  is  here  at  home.  In 


every  community  it  is  the  busy  men  who  must 
inaugurate  and  promote  all  public  affairs,  and  in 
Quincy  Mr.  Newcomb  has  been  among  the  first 
and  most  active  in  many  enterprises.  Public 
spirited  and  progressive  in  everything,  Quincy 
owes  much  to  him  for  its  material  advance- 
ment. 

Mr.  Newcomb  was  married  May  2,  1860,  to 
Miss  Eliza  A.  Bowman,  of  Flushing,  L.  I.,  at 
St.  Paul's  Church,  New  York  City.  His  wife 
died  four  years  later,  leaving  one  daughter, 
Mrs.  Joseph  W.  Emery.  Sept.  22,  1869,  he  mar- 
ried Miss  Anna  M.  Ritchie,  of  Beloit,  Wis.,  and 
they  have  three  daughters  and  one  son,  Mrs. 
John  A.  Stillwell,  Mrs.  Frank  H.  Whitney,  Miss 
Florence  and  Richard  Bernard  Newcomb,  now 
fitting  himself  for  a  collegiate  course.  The 
home  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Newcomb,  on  East  Maine 
street,  is  one  of  the  notable  residences  of  this 
section  of  the  state. 


ALDO  SOMMER. 

For  more  than  forty  years  Mr.  Aldo  Sommer 
has  been  prominently  identified  with  the  drug 
trade  of  Quincy,  and  he  is  one  of  the  pioneers 
of  the  jobbing  business  in  that  important  line. 
Coming  to  this  country  in  1849,  he  located  in 
this  city  in  1857  and  became  a  member  of  the 
drug  firm  of  F.  Flachs  &  Co.  In  1860  he  suc- 
ceeded to  the  entire  business.  Four  years  later 
Mr.  William  Metz  became  associated  with  him, 
and  the  firm  of  Sommer  &  Metz  opened  an 
extensive  wholesale  and  retail  drug  house.  In 
1869  he  retired  from  business  to  travel  with  his 
family  in  this  country  and  Europe,  and  he  re- 
turned in  1873  to  embark  in  the  wholesale  drug 
business  exclusively.  The  firm  of  Sommer, 
Lynds  &  Co.,  of  which  Mr.  Somner  was  presi- 
dent and  treasurer,  existed  from  1875  to  1894, 
when  their  entire  stock  was  lost  by  water  on 
account  of  a  fire  in  the  adjoining  building.  Mr. 
Sommer  was  at  that  time  largely  interested  in 
the  Van  Natta-Lynds  Drug  Co.  of  St.  Joseph, 
and  president  of  the  Spokane  Drug  Co.,  Spo- 
kane, Wash.  The  Aldo  Sommer  Drug  Co.  suc- 
ceeded to  the  business  in  Quincy,  with  Mr. 
Sommer  as  chief.  Although  fifty  years  in  the 
drug  business,  he  is  active  and  enjoys  it  more 
than  ever,  trying  to  please  the  many  friends 
and  customers.  In  1862,  with  Mr.  Hargis,  he 


established    the   Star    Nursery,   and    for    over 
twenty-five  years  conducted  one  of  the  leading 


nurseries  of  this  section  in  addition  to  his  drug 
business.  A  man  of  broad  culture  and  high 
attainments,  he  is  one  of  Quincy's  best  citizens. 


REPRESENTATIVE  MEN  AND  HOMES. 


CHARLES  H.  BULL. 


Like  his  brother,  Mr.  Charles  H.  Bull  came 
here  in  an  early  day  and  has  spent  his  entire 
active  business  life  in  Quincy.  When  fourteen 
years  of  age  he  left  his  home  in  Hartford,  Conn., 
to  seek  his  fortune  in  the  west,  joining  Mr. 
Lorenzo  Bull  in  this  city  in  1837.  For  seven 
years  he  was  employed  in  the  store  of  Mr.  J.  T. 
Holmes,  his  salary  the  first  year  being  $100, 
with  an  advance  of  $50  each  succeeding  year. 
While  the  salary  was  small  it  was  sufficient  to 


agement  of  the  organization  of  the  company 
and  of  the  work  of  construction  devolved  very 
largely  on  him,  and  he  was  afterwards  for  many 
years  the  president  of  the  company  Out  of  this 
enterprise  has  been  developed  an  important 
railway  system,  extending  from  Quincy  to  Kan- 
sas City,  St.  Joseph,  Omaha  and  south  to  the 
Gulf.  The  history  of  the  Quincy,  Missouri  & 
Pacific  Railway  would  fill  a  book  and  would 
prove  highly  interesting  reading.  Soon  after 


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enable  him  to  thoroughly  establish  himself 
among  the  early  pioneers  of  the  rapidly  devel- 
oping west  and  to  lay  the  foundation  for  the 
extensive  and  important  undertakings  of  later 
years.  In  1844  the  firm  of  L.  &  C.  H.  Bull  was 
established,  a  business  title  which  was  con- 
tinued for  more  than  half  a  century  and  which 
became  as  widely  and  favorably  known  as  any 
firm  name  in  the  entire  west.  First  in  mercan- 
tile trade  and  then  for  nearly  forty  years  in  the 
banking  business,  it  was  a  title  that  stood  for 
sterling  worth  and  absolute  stability.  When 
the  State  Savings,  Loan  and  Trust  Company 
succeeded  to  the  business  of  this  firm,  Mr.  Bull 
became  first  vice-president,  an  office  which  he 
still  holds,  and  he  is  still  one  of  the  active  man- 
agers of  this  great  banking  concern.  One  of  the 
most  important  enterprises  with  which  Mr.  Bull 
has  been  identified  aside  from  his  banking  busi- 
ness is  the  Quincy,  Missouri  &  Pacific  Railway. 
He  was  one  of  the  projectors  of  this  undertaking 
in  June,  1869,  and  was  the  first  treasurer  and 
financial  agent  as  well  as  a  member  of  the  first 
board  of  directors.  The  active  financial  man- 


the  active  work  of  construction  was  commenced 
a  period  of  universal  business  depression  set  in, 
and  but  for  the  wise  foresight  and  constant, 
careful  business  management  of  Mr.  Bull  and 
his  associates  the  enterprise  could  not  have 
succeeded.  Eventually  this  road  will  become  an 
important  link  in  the  shortest  and  most  direct 
east  and  west  line  across  the  continent,  a  con- 
summation towards  which  Mr.  Bi;ll  is  still 
actively  working  and  which  will  prove  of  para- 
mount importance  to  the  city. 

From  the  earlier  days  Mr.  Bull  has  been 
active  in  worthy  public  enterprises  calculated 
to  advance  the  welfare  of  his  home  city.  He  is 
president  of  the  Public  Library  Association,  to 
which  he  devotes  much  time  and  attention.  He 
is  also  president  of  the  Graceland  Cemetery  As- 
sociation, treasurer  and  trustee  of  the  Anna 
Brown  Home  for  the  Aged,  a1  director  of  the 
Associated  Charities,  and  a  generous  contributor 
to  every  worthy  cause.  Few  men  have  done 
more  for  Quincy,  and  still  in  the  prime  of  life, 
Mr.  Bull  has  many  useful  and  helpful  years 
before  him. 


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REPRESENTATIVE  MEN  AND  HOMES. 


CHAUNCEY  H.  CASTLE. 


Mr.  Castle,  president  of  the  Comstock-Castle 
Stove  Company,  is  one  of  the  most  prominent 
and  widely  known  stove  manufacturers  of  the 
country.  The  business  of  which  he  is  the  head 
was  established  in  1849  by  Allen  and  Enoch 
Comstock,  and  is  one  of  the  oldest  as  well  as 
one  of  the  largest  stove-making  plants  in  the 
west.  Mr.  Castle  was  born  in  Columbus,  111., 
July  10,  1843.  His  father,  the  late  Timothy 
Castle,  was  one  of  the  pioneer  residents  of  the 


in  the  stove  foundry,  and  in  1865  he  went  into 
the  office  as  shipping  clerk,  to  become  a  partner 
in  tt^  business  three  years  later.  In  1880  the 
present  company  was  incorporated.  In  all  mat- 
ters of  public  enterprise  Mr.  Castle  is  univer- 
sally regarded  as  a  thoroughly  representative 
business  man.  He  is  president  of  the  Stove 
Founders'  National  Defense  Association,  a  di- 
rector in  the  American  Straw  Board  Company, 
and  since  1892  has  served  as  aid-de-camp  on  the 


county,  coming  here  from  Wilmington,  Vt.,  In 
1835.  He  was  a  man  of  affairs,  and  up  to  the 
time  of  his  death  in  1880  was  an  important 
factor  in  the  progress  and  development  of  the 
city.  Coming  to  Quincy  with  his  parents  in 
1858,  Mr.  C.  H.  Castle  attended  the  public 
schools  and  soon  after  the  breaking  out  of  the 
war  left  Quincy  College  to  go  into  the  army, 
enlisting  as  a  private  in  Company  I,  Seventy- 
third  Illinois  Volunteer  Infantry.  Though  but 
eighteen  years  of  age  he  was  a  brave  soldier 
and  soon  gained  the  rank  of  acting  sergeant- 
major.  His  regiment  participated  in  many  of 
the  notable  battles  of  the  early  part  of  the  war, 
and  he  was  repeatedly  wounded,  his  military 
career  being  finally  terminated  at  the  terrible 
fight  at  Chickamauga,  where  he  was  shot  five 
times — in  both  legs,  both  arms  and  the  hand. 
In  1863  his  father  had  purchased  a  large  interest 


staff  of  each  of  the  National  Commanders  of 
the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic.  At  home  Mr. 
Castle  is  interested  in  many  important  enter- 
prises. He  is  a  director  in  the  State  Savings, 
Loan  and  Trust  Company,  the  Newcomb  Hotel 
Company,  Graceland  Cemetery  Association,  the 
Quincy  Freight  Bureau,  the  Chamber  of  Com- 
merce, president  of  the  Mulliner  Box  and  Plan- 
ing Company  and  was  for  some  time  president 
of  the  Quincy  Commercial  Club.  His  zeal  for 
the  public  welfare  is  proverbial.  He  was  chair- 
man of  the  committee  that  was  so  largely 
instrumental  in  hastening  the  extensive  C.,  B.  & 
Q.  improvements  now  in  progress  here,  and  the 
heavy  purchases  of  property  necessary  to  these 
improvements  were  made  under  his  personal 
direction.  For  all  worthy  objects  Mr.  Castle  is 
a  liberal  contributor,  and  his  name  is  strongly 
stamped  in  the  progressive  history  of  Quincy. 


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REPRESENTATIVE  MEN  AND  HOMES. 


HENRY  A.  WILLIAMSON. 


Mr.  H.  A.  Williamson  was  the  pioneer  in 
establishing  the  extensive  oil  business  in  the 
west,  and  in  the  development  of  this  great  in- 
dustry he  has  been  a  most  important  factor. 
Born  at  Freeport,  Pa.,  Sept.  7,  1828,  his  early 
business  interests  were  largely  in  Western 
Pennsylvania.  In  1859  he  decided  to  seek  a 
location  in  the  west,  and  in  1860  established 


his  present  oil  business  in  this  city.  He  was 
the  general  western  agent  for  large  oil  refiners 
in  Pennsylvania  and  for  some  years  supplied 
all  of  the  oil  used  as  far  west  as  the  Missouri 
river,  his  trade  including  Kansas  City,  St. 
Joseph,  Denver  and  other  important  cities.  At 
that  time  oil  was  made  from  coal.  Later  when 
oil  wells  were  discovered  and  oil  was  refined 
from  petroleum,  the  material  reduction  in  prices 
and  the  wonderful  increase  in  the  supply 


brought  about  an  immense  increase  in  the 
business.  With  this  increase  Mr.  Williamson's 
facilities  have  kept  steady  pace,  and  he  is  to-day 
one  of  the  leading  dealers  of  the  country  in  this 
important  industry.  For  supplying  the  local 
trade  he  has  established  an  extensive  depot  and 
warehouse  south  of  the  city,  with  large  storage 
tanks  where  the  oil  is  received  direct  from  the 
tank  cars.  Storage  stations  have  also  been 
established  at  all  important  points  in  his  ter- 
ritory, nearly  all  of  the  oil  being  shipped  in 
tank  cars  direct  from  the  refineries  to  points 
of  distribution  and  consumption.  This  very 
important  as  well  as  very  extensive  business  is 
wonderfully  systematized,  and  dealers  are  sup- 
plied on  an  hour's  notice.  Mr.  Williamson  also 
handles  nearly  all  the  salt  used  in  this  section. 

For  many  years  Mr.  Williamson  was  vice- 
president  of  the  First  National  Bank,  and  when 
that  institution  was  consolidated  with  the  State 
Savings,  Loan  and  Trust  Company  he  became 
one  of  the  directors  of  the  latter  bank.  He  has 
been  president  of  the  Quincy  Building  and  Loan 
Association  ever  since  its  organization,  with 
the  exception  of  one  year,  and  has  been  an  im- 
portant factor  in  the  development  of  the  impor- 
tant building  association  interest  in  this  city. 
The  institution  of  which  he  is  president  was 
the  first  establshed  here  and  will  soon  celebrate 
its  twenty-fifth  anniversary.  He  is  also  presi- 
dent of  the  Arrowrock  Mining  and  Milling  Com- 
pany, a  director  of  the  Newcomb  Hotel 
Company,  and  a  director  of  the  Aldo  Sommer 
Drug  Company.  For  many  years  Mr.  William- 
son has  been  actively  identified  with  the  Episco- 
pal Church.  He  was  largely  instrumental  in 
the  division  of  the  diocese  of  Illinois  and  the 
creation  of  the  diocese  of  Quincy  in  1877.  Since 
the  organization  of  the  Quincy  diocese  he  has 
been  a  member  of  the  standing  committee,  the 
executive  power  of  the  diocese,  and  he  has  been 
a  delegate  to  each  of  the  general  conventions. 
He  is  also  senior  warden  of  St.  John's  Cathedral. 
In  all  public  movements  he  is  one  of  Quincy's 
most  progressive  citizens,  and  he  is  a  generous 
contributor  to  all  worthy  charities. 


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REPRESENTATIVE  MEN  AND  HOMES. 


HENRY  F.  J.  RICKER. 


So  long  as  Quincy  stands  the  name  of  Mr.  H. 
P.  J.  Ricker  will  be  honored  in  this  community. 
Mr.  Ricker  occupies  a  position  peculiarly  his 
own.  His  long  and  active  life  has  been  devoted 
largely  to  improving  the  city  of  his  choice. 
While  he  has  accumulated  property,  probably 
more  largely  than  any  other  citizen,  he  has 
improved  it,  dotting  waste  places  with  sub- 
stantial homes,  business  blocks  and  factories. 
He  has  bought  property  which  had  no  attrac- 
tions for  a  less  far-seeing  man  and  has  created 
desirable  residence  localities.  But  for  him  the 
progress  of  improvements  would  have  been  very 
much  slower,  and  not  for  many  years  to  come 
would  Quincy  be  as  attractive  as  it  is  to-day. 
While  he  has  done  this,  Mr.  Ricker  has  founded 
and  built  up  one  of  the  greatest  banking  insti- 
tutions in  the  west,  an  institution  with 
resources  of  over  $3,000,000,  and  has  made  for 
himself  a  name  among  the  leading  financiers  of 
the  country.  All  of  this  he  has  accomplished 
from  a  very  humble  beginning.  Mr.  Ricker  was 
born  in  Germany  in  1822  and  emigrated  to 
America  with  his  parents  in  1839,  landing  first 
at  New  Orleans.  Then  he  came  up  the  river  to 
St.  Louis,  and  on  March  4,  1840,  located  in 
Quincy.  His  first  employment  was  with  the 
late  Gov.  Wood  as  an  ordinary  laborer,  thus 
assisting  his  father  in  paying  for  two  lots  pur- 
chased from  his  employer.  He  was  afterwards 
employed  as  a  clerk  for  S.  &  W.  B.  Thayer, 
Charles  Holmes  and  Albert  Daneke,  and  in  1849 
associated  himself  in  the  mercantile  business 
with  Leopold  Arntzen.  For  seven  years  this 
business  was  very  successful  and  was  afterwards 
supplemented  with  the  produce  business.  In 
1858  Mr.  Ricker  was  elected  police  magistrate 
and  was  re-elected  in  1862.  It  was  at  this  time 
that  he  laid  the  foundation  for  his  present  ex- 
tensive bank.  Commanding  the  confidence  of 
the  community  to  the  highest  degree,  he  began 
the  banking  and  exchange  business  in  a  small 
way,  but  it  prospered  steadily,  and  in  1865  he 
bought  out  the  banking  house  of  John  Wood  & 
Co.,  on  Fifth  and  Maine  streets.  Soon  after, 
Mr.  Bernard  H.  F.  Hoene  became  a  partner  in 
the  business  and  the  bank  was  located  on 
Hampshire  street,  between  Fifth  and  Sixth. 


Later  the  Ricker  National  Bank  was  organized, 
of  which  Mr.  Ricker  is  the  president  and  the 
leading  stockholder,  and  the  present  substantial 
banking  house  was  built.  Mr.  Ricker  was  one 
of  the  organizers  of  the  German  Insurance  and 
Savings  Institution,  one  of  the  promoters  and 
leading  stockholders  of  the  Quincy,  Missouri  & 


Pacific  Railway,  a  director  in  the  Gas  and  Elec- 
tric Light  companies,  and  is  now  treasurer  of 
the  Menke  &  Grimm  Planing  Mill  Company.  He 
has  never  sought  public  position,  but  in  1884 
was  the  unanimous  choice  of  his  party  for  state 
treasurer,  a  compliment  which  came  to  him 
entirely  unsolicited.  A  resident  of  Quincy  for 
nearly  sixty  years,  Mr.  Ricker's  life  has  been  a 
very  active  one.  He  is  still  in  active  life,  giving 
his  attention  to  his  extensive  banking  and  other 
interests,  an  honored  and  universally  respected 
citizen. 


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REPRESENTATIVE  MEN  AND  HOMES. 


GORHAM  J. 

Of  solid  physique,  genial  and  approachable, 
yet  firm  and  positive  in  his  judgment,  unflinch- 
ing in  courage  to  meet  any  emergency,  Mr. 
Gorham  J.  Cottrell  is  a  prominent  type  of  the 
representative  and  successful  business  man. 
Having  made  his  own  way  in  the  world,  he  is 
dominated  by  independence  and  self-reliance, 
yet  is  charitable  and  generous  to  the  less  for- 
tunate and  the  needy.  Mr.  Cottrell  was  born 
on  a  farm  in  Chautauqua  County,  New  York, 


COTTRELL. 

owner  concluding  that  as  the  range  had  been 
cut  off  he  would  go  farther  west.  There  was  no 
railroad  there  at  that  time,  but  Macomb  was  a 
prosperous  and  thriving  place.  Mr.  Cottrell 
knew  very  little  about  the  hardware  business, 
but  he  was  an  unusually  good  salesman,  put  in 
a  big  stock  of  goods,  including  the  first  full  car 
load  of  stoves  ever  shipped  to  the  town,  and 
went  to  work  to  sell  them.  His  competitor  in 
business  wanted  to  know  what  he  was  doing 


near  Chautauqua  Lake,  his  boyhood  being  spent 
on  the  farm  and  in  attending  the  district  school. 
He  also  enjoyed  the  advantages  of  a  thorough 
academic  education.  When  seventeen  years  of 
age  he  secured  a  position  in  a  general  store  at 
Mayville,  a  beautiful  village  at  the  head  of  the 
lake,  working  the  first  year  for  $5  a  month. 
This  position  he  retained  for  nearly  four  years, 
applying  himself  closely  and  securing  a  thor- 
ough knowledge  of  general  merchandising.  He 
then  obtained  a  better  position  at  Fredonia, 
N.  Y.,  and  after  clerking  two  years,  at  the  age 
of  twenty-two,  became  a  partner  in  the  store. 
The  new  firm  was  successful' from  the  start  and 
after  continuing  the  business  for  three  years  he 
decided  to  come  west,  stopping  first  at  Aurora, 
but  locating  at  Macomb  in  1856,  with  a  fair 
amount  of  capital.  He  bought  out  an  old- 
established  hardware  business,  the  former 


with  so  many  stoves,  predicting  that  he  would 
never  find  customers  for  them  all.  In  two  week:, 
they  were  practically  all  sold,  and  an  order  was 
placed  for  another  large  shipment.  He  re- 
mained in  Macomb  ten  years,  doing  a  very 
profitable  business,  and  in  1866  came  to  Quincy, 
buying  out  the  hardware  business  of  Joslyn  & 
Co.  Since  that  time  he  has  met  with  continued 
and  uninterrupted  success.  In  1879  he  built 
his  present  extensive  hardware  house,  one  of 
the  finest  stone-front  business  blocks  in  the  city. 
Mr.  Cottrell  is  president  of  the  Cottrell  Hard- 
ware Company,  the  Cottrell-Sholl  Furniture 
Co.  and  the  Newcomb  Hotel  Company.  His 
property  interests  are  large  and  he  is  also  in- 
terested in  other  important  business  enterprises. 
Of  late  years  he  has  devoted  considerable  time 
to  travel,  in  this  country  and  (abroad. 


REPRESENTATIVE  MEN  AND  HOMES. 


THOMAS  POPE. 


After  a  long  and  active  business  life,  dating 
back  more  than  sixty  years,  Mr.  Thomas  Pope 
is  enjoying  well-earned  rest  and  recreation,  sur- 
rounded by  his  books,  and  loved  and  venerated 
by  the  entire  community.  He  is  one  of  Quincy's 
pioneers,  sharing  in  the  toil  and  privations  of 
the  early  days,  and  throughout  his  active  and 
helpful  life  he  has  contributed  his  full  share  in 
the  development  of  the  city.  Mr..  Pope  was 
born  in  New  York  City,  July  20,  1820,  and  re- 


erected  in  Quincy.  This  being  the  time  of  a 
serious  famine  in  Ireland,  they  had  a  prosperous 
business,  the  demand  for  American  breadstuffs 
being  active.  The  business  with  Mr.  Penfield 
continued  until  Mr.  Pope  left  for  Oregon  in  1853. 
In  1843  Mr.  Pope  was  married  to  Mrs.  Lucinda 
Burns  Borein,  Mrs.  Borein  then  having  one 
child,  P.  R.  Borein.  Two  sons  were  the  fruit  of 
this  union,  Charles  Abernethy  and  Thomas 
Edward.  Charles  gave  his  life  for  his  country 


ceived  his  early  education  in  the  public  schools 
of  that  city.  His  father,  Charles  Pope,  moved 
with  most  of  his  family  from  New  York  to 
Quincy  in  1837,  the  journey  occupying  thirty 
days.  After  five  years'  residence  his  father  and 
mother  returned  to  their  old  home,  two  sons 
and  a  married  daughter  remaining  here.  Mr. 
Thomas  Pope  acted  as  clerk  in  stores,  first  in 
Payson  and  afterwards  in  Quincy.  In  1844  he 
started  a  general  store  on  the  north  side  of 
Hampshire  street,  west  of  Fourth.  A  few  years 
later  he  conducted  a  general  store  with  the  late 
U.  S.  Penfield,  on  the  north  side  of  Hampshire 
street,  just  east  of  Fourth,  the  firm  name  being 
Pope  &  Co.  At  the  same  time  the  firm  of  Pope, 
Whyers  &  Hazard  owned  and  conducted  the  old 
steam  flouring  mill  on  Front  street,  near  Del- 
aware, this  being  the  first  mill  of  the  kind 


in  the  civil  war.  Thomas  Edward  Pope  and 
Peter  R.  Borein  have  long  been  residents  of 
Oakland,  Cal.  With  the  exception  of  five  years 
spent  in  Oregon— 1853  to  1858— the  residence  of 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Pope  has  been  continuously  in 
Quincy.  They  celebrated  their  golden  wedding 
with  their  children  and  grandchildren  in  Oak- 
land, Cal.,  May  11,  1893. 

Soon  after  the  return  from  Oregon,  Mr.  Pope 
started  a  grocery  and  produce  business  on 
Front  street.  In  1861  the  firm  of  Pope  & 
Baldwin  was  formed,  and  a  prosperous  business 
in  agricultural  implements  conducted  for  over  a 
quarter  of  a  century,  up  to  thp  time  of  the  death 
of  Mr.  E.  G.  Baldwin.  In  the  meantime  Messrs. 
W.  R.  Lockwood  and  John  W.  Heitz  had  become 
partners,  and  the  name  of  the  firm  was  changed 
to  Pope,  Baldwin  &  Co.  After  the  death  of  Mr. 


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REPRESENTATIVE  MEN  AND  HOMES. 


Baldwin  the  firm  name  was  Pope,  Lockwood 
&  Co.,  until  the  business  was  closed  in  1891. 
Since  that  time  Mr.  Pope  has  not  been  in  active 
business. 

As  affording  some  insight  to  the  life  of  Mr. 
Pope,  reference  may  be  had  to  some  of  the  car- 
dinal principles  that  dominated  it.  In  politics 
he  was,  first  and  last,  for  "free  soil  and  free 
speech,"  as  was  evidenced  by  his  vote  for  James 
G.  Birney  for  President  in  1844,  when  Polk 
defeated  Clay;  as  also  in  the  presidential  con- 
test of  1848,  when,  associated  with  seven  other 
gentlemen  of  Quincy,  a  campaign  paper,  the 
Quincy  Tribune,  was  published  in  the  interest 
of  free  soil  and  of  the  election  of  Martin  Van 
Buren  to  the  presidency.  The  paper  was  ably 
conducted,  the  principal  writers  being  Charles 
B.  Lawrence,  afterwards  one  of  the  Supreme 
Court  Judges,  and  Samuel  Willard,  now  a 
prominent  educator  in  Chicago. 

At  all  times  and  under  all  circumstances  he 
has  had  the  courage  of  his  convictions.  During 
the  troublesome  and  critical  times  preceding  the 
rebellion  and  during  the  war,  he  espoused  the 
right,  fearlessly  and  vigorously  defending  his 
position,  even  when  single-handed,  manifesting 
a  degree  of  physical,  as  well  as  moral,  courage 
possessed  by  few  men.  By  reason  of  his  strong, 
fearless  and  unblemished  character,  Thomas 
Pope  early  became  a  tower  of  strength  in  the 
community  and  during  his  long  life  his  influence 
for  good  has  been  unshaken. 


As  to  temperance  Mr.  Pope  early  planted  his 
feet  on  the  rock  of  total  abstinence.  He.  and 
his  intimate  friend,  the  late  U.  S.  Penfield, 
joined  the  Washingtonian  movement  in  the 
early  forties,  and  they  were  afterwards  among 
the  charter  members  of  the  first  organization  of 
Sons  of  Temperance  in  Quincy.  Mr.  Pope  helped 
form  the  first  division  of  Sons  of  Temperance 
in  Oregon  and  when,  in  1858,  he  returned  to 
Quincy,  he  had  been  appointed  to  represent 
Oregon  in  the  national  division  Sons  of  Temper- 
ance about  to  assemble  in  Indianapolis. 

One  other  feature  marked  the  years  of  his 
early  manhood,  the  determination  to  give  his 
earnest  allegiance  to  the  moral  and  religious 
life  of  the  community.  Fifty-six  years,  ago, 
under  the  pastorate  of  Rev.  Horatio  Foote,  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Pope  united  with  the  First  Congrega- 
tional Church  of  Quincy  and  gladly  bore  their 
part  in  its  work  and  worship.  For  many  years 
Mr.  Pope  was  active  in  the  work  of  the  Sunday 
school. 

Mr.  Pope  has  frequently  represented  his 
church  in  the  meetings  of  district  associations; 
in  the  state  association,  and  been  twice  honored 
by  appointment  as  delegate  to  the  National 
Triennial  Councils  of  the  Congregational 
Churches. 

In  their  pleasant  home  on  East  Vermont 
street  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Pope  have  entered  upon  the 
fifty-sixth  year  of  their  married  life. 


CHARLES  E.  CARLEY. 

Mr.  Charles  E.  Carley  was  born  in  Shelbyville, 
Mo.,  October  23,  1856,  and  is  a  son  of  Mr.  Felix 
J.  Carley,  in  more  recent  years  a  respected  resi- 
dent of  this  city.  In  1869  he  came  to  Quincy  to 
accept  a  position  as  apprentice  in  the  drug  house 
of  Rogers  &  Malone,  remaining  in  that  house 
for  thirteen  years  and  becoming  an  experienced 
pharmacist  and  chemist,  having  full  charge  of 
the  retail  department  of  their  store.  In  1882  he 
engaged  in  the  retail  drug  business  at  Fifth  and 
Hampshire  streets,  building  up  a  large  and 
profitable  trade.  Later  he  became  interested  in 
the  wholesale  business  of  the  Sommer-Lynds 
Drug  Company,  having  charge  of  the  extensive 
sundry  department.  Three  years  ago  Mr.  Car- 
ley  built  his  present  drug  store  building  on 
North  Sixth  avenue,  where  he  has  a  most  attrac- 
tive and  inviting  place  of  business  as  well  as  a 
profitable  trade. 


REPRESENTATIVP:  MEN  AND  HOMES. 


GEORGE  WELLS. 


Mr.  George  Wells,  senior  member  of  the  firm 
of  Wells  &  Adams,  loan  and  mortgage  bankers 
and  brokers,  is  a  native  of  Quincy,  and  few  men 
in  the  city  have  gained  greater  distinction  in 
civic  life  than  he.  He  is  a  member  of  one  of 
the  oldest  and  most  prominent  of  Quincy  fam- 
ilies, his  father,  Edward  Wells,  having  been  one 
of  the  pioneers  of  the  city.  Edward  Wells  was 
born  in  Newburyport,  Mass.,  in  1813,  but  left 
that  place  at  the  early  age  of  17,  removing  to 


from  college  he  first  became  associated  with  his 
father  in  pork  packing,  but  later  became  inter- 
ested in  the  fruit  canning  industry  and  then  in 
groceries,  in  all  of  which  he  was  successful. 
Several  years  ago  he  founded  the  firm  of  Wells 
&  Adams,  which  occupies  handsome  apartments 
in  the  Wells  building  and  conducts  an  extensive 
business.  Mr.  Wells  has  been  prominently 
identified  with  a  number  of  public  enterprises, 
and  has  given  freely  of  his  time  and  means  for 


Boston.  He  remained  there  four  years,  or  until 
he  was  21  years  of  age,  and  then  decided  to 
come  west.  This  section  of  the  country  was  then 
little  more  than  a  wilderness,  and  after  a  rough 
journey  of  thirty-six  days  he  arrived  in  Quincy. 
That  was  in  1834,  when  this  city  was  a  frontier 
village.  He  first  engaged  in  coopering,  and 
later  became  interested  in  the  packing  of  pork 
and  beef  on  a  large  scale,  to  which  he  devoted 
his  attention  for  a  number  of  years,  and  was  a 
most  successful  business  man.  He  was  one  of 
the  men  whose  sturdy  character  and  enterprise 
helped  to  make  Quincy  what  it  is,  and  when  he 
passed  away  at  the  ripe  age  of  79  he  was 
mourned  by  the  whole  community. 

Mr.  George  Wells  was  born  in  this  city  August 
22,  1846,  and  was  educated  in  the  schools  of 
Quincy  and  of  Massachusetts.  Upon  his  return 


the  public  weal.  Politically,  he  is  a  republican, 
but  has  never  sought  office,  although  he  has 
always  taken  a  keen  interest  in  public  affairs. 
He  is  a  prominent  member  of  the  Masonic  fra- 
ternity, and  has  been  eminent  commander  of 
El  Aksa  commandery  of  Knights  Templar. 

Mr.  Wells  was  married  in  1869  to  Miss  Sarah 
Jane  Castle,  a  native  of  England.  They  have 
four  children,  Edward  C.  and  James  Russell 
Wells,  who  are  associated  with  him  in  business, 
Charles  L.  and  Harriet  E.  Wells.  His  eldest 
son,  Edward  C.  Wells,  is  a  graduate  of  the  Mas- 
sachusetts Institute  of  Technology,  and  enjoys 
the  distinction  of  being  the  only  republican  who 
was  ever  elected  county  surveyor  of  Adams 
County.  Mr.  Wells  is  a  splendid  type  of  the 
unassumirig  citizen,  and  commands  the 
unbounded  confidence  and  respect  of  the  whole 
community. 


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REPRESENTATIVE  MEN  AND  HOMES. 


EDWARD  J.  PARKER. 


In  the  building  up  and  development  of  the 
extensive  banking  interest  of  Quincy,  Mr.  E.  J. 
Parker  has  been  an  active  and  important  factor. 
For  more  than  thirty-five  years  he  has  been 
engaged  in  the  banking  business  in  this  city, 
coming  here  from  Hartford,  Conn.,  his  native 
city,  in  1863,  to  associate  himself  with  the  bank- 
ing firm  of  L.  &  C.  H.  Bull.  With  this  bank  he 
has  since  been  connected,  excepting  six  years, 
from  1873  to  1879,  when  he  was  engaged  in 


boulevards  which  the  public  now  enjoys.  By 
reason  of  the  limited  resources  of  the  city  the 
revenues  available  for  this  work  have  been  very 
small,  but  through  Mr.  Parker's  energy  and 
determination  Quincy  now  has  one  of  the  most 
beautiful  systems  of  public  parks  in  the  entire 
country.  The  commanding  sites  along  the  river 
north  and  south  of  the  city  have  been  preserved 
for  public  parks,  South  Park  and  Primrose  Park 
have  been  created  and  the  older  parks  have  been 


banking  on  his  own  account.  In  1879  the  busi- 
ness of  his  firm  and  of  L.  &  C.  H.  Bull  was 
consolidated,  Mr.  Parker  becoming  a  member 
of  the  firm  and  he  is  now  cashier  of  the  succes- 
sor to  that  bank,  the  State  Savings,  Loan  and 
Trust  Company,  the  largest  banking  institution 
in  Illinois,  outside  of  Chicago,  under  state  char- 
ter, and  one  of  the  most  important  in  volume  of 
business  in  the  entire  west.  To  the  develop- 
ment of  this  strong  financial  institution  he  has 
contributed  his  full  share  and  he  is  still  one  of 
its  active  managers. 

During  his  long  residence  here  Mr.  Parker  has 
been  an  important  factor  in  the  development  of 
the  city.  As  one  of  the  organizers  and  the 
president  of  the  Park  and  Boulevard  Associa- 
tion since  its  formation,  to  his  tireless  efforts  is 
largely  due  the  magnificent  system  of  parks  and 


greatly  beautified.  Broad  boulevards  encircling 
the  entire  city  and  connecting  the  public  parks 
have  also  been  provided.  To  this  work  Mr. 
Parker  has  given  very  largely  of  his  time  and 
his  artistic  genius,  and  he  has  accomplished 
seeming  impossibilities  with  the  limited 
resources  at  command.  An  active  and  promi- 
nent member  of  the  American  Forestry  Associa- 
tion and  of  the  American  Park  and  Outdoor  Art 
Association,  it  is  particularly  fortunate  that 
Quincy  should  enjoy  the  benefit  of  his  genius  in 
park  development. 

Mr.  Parker  was  for  many  years  one  of  the 
directors  of  the  street  railway  company  and 
was  a  member  of  the  board  when  the  present 
splendid  system  of  rapid  transit  was  introduced. 
He  was  also  identified  with  the  extensive  busi- 
ness of  the  Quincy  Paper  Company  as  director 


REPRESENTATIVE  MEN  AND  HOMES. 


and  secretary  up  to  the  time  of  the  formation  of 
the  American  Straw  Board  Company.  For 
some  time  he  held  the  office  of  treasurer  of  the 
Quincy,  Omaha  &  Kansas  City  Railway  Com- 
pany, and  is  now  cashier  of  the  successor  road, 
the  Omaha,  Kansas  City  &  Eastern  Railway.  A 
forceful  speaker  and  a  convincing  writer,  he  has 
taken  prominent  part  in  many  important  public 
movements,  more  recently  in  the  sound  cur- 
rency movement  and  the  corn  propaganda,  now 
attracting  universal  attention.  He  was  vice 
president  for  Illinois  of  the  Indianapolis  Mone- 
tary Congress,  is  a  recognized  factor  in  the 
National  Business  League  and  a  prominent 
member  of  the  Illinois  and  the  National  Bank- 
ers' Associations.  All  of  the  business  associa- 
tions organized  in  Quincy  have  had  his  earnest 
support.  To  the  young  men  he  has  always  been 
a  helpful  and  steadfast  friend,  ever  ready  to 
assist  in  securing  them  employment  and  in 
aiding  them  in  a  substantial  way.  The  militia 
and  naval  organizations  have  received  his  active 
co-operation.  Mr.  Parker  is  the  treasurer  of 
Blessing  Hospital  Association  and  has  been  one 
of  the  leading  supporters  of  that  important 


charity  since  its  organization.  He  is  also 
actively  identified  with  other  charitable  associa- 
tions devoted  to  the  public  good.  For  many 
years  he  has  been  prominent  in  the  affairs  of 
the  Episcopal  Church,  being  one  of  the  organ- 
izers of  the  Church  of  the  Good  Shepherd,  to 
which  he  has  been  a  most  liberal  contributor. 
He  was  also  active  in  bringing  about  a  division 
of  the  Diocese  of  Illinois  and  the  creation  of 
the  Diocese  of  Quincy.  The  organization  of  the 
Woodland  Cemetery  Association  was  largely 
brought  about  through  his  efforts.  One  of  the 
organizers  of  the  Quincy  Country  Club,  Mr. 
Parker  is  also  a  member  of  several  of  the  prom- 
inent clubs  of  Chicago  and  the  eastern  cities. 
Few  men  with  as  important  business  responsi- 
bilities could  successfully  undertake  so  much 
work  for  the  public  good,  but  Mr.  Parker  is  a 
rapid  and  systematic  worker  and  possesses  the 
quality  of  energy  that  never  knows  defeat.  In 
his  extensive  travels  in  this  country  and  abroad 
he  has  been  a  close  observer  and  his  broad  cul- 
ture has  enabled  him  to  make  his  observations 
and  rare  fund  of  information  of  practical  benefit 
to  the  public  and  to  his  home  city. 


JOHN  R.  WISDOM. 

Mr.  John  R.  Wisdom  was  born  on  a  farm  in 
Randolph  County,  Missouri,  March  22,  1848. 
After  receiving  a  common  school  education,  he 
went  to  work  on  the  home  farm,  the  best  in  the 
county.  When  fifteen  years  of  age  he  enlisted 
in  Company  D,  Thirty-ninth  Missouri  Volunteer 
Infantry,  serving  to  the  close  of  the  war.  He 
was  young  in  years,  but  old  enough  to  make  a 
brave  and  faithful  soldier.  At  the  close  of  the 
war  he  commenced  handling  lumber  as  a  con- 
tractor and  was  then  engaged  in  the  livery  busi- 
ness in  Hannibal  for  some  years,  the  firm  being 
Loudon  &  Wisdom.  In  1880  Mr.  Wisdom  was 
elected  to  the  state  legislature  from  Marion 
County,  the  only  republican  who  has  been 
elected  from  that  district  since  1870.  In  1886  he 
went  to  Arkansas  as  the  general  manager  of  the 
Herne  Lumber  Company  and  in  1890  located  in 
this  city  as  manager  of  the  Gem  City  Saw  Mill 
Company.  In  1898  he  was  elected  president  and 
general  manager,  the  position  which  he  still 
holds.  The  business  of  this  company  is  one  of 
the  largest  and  most  important  in  Quincy.  The 
mill  is  one  of  the  best  on  the  river,  cutting 
twenty-five  million  feet  of  lumber  a  year  and 
giving  lucrative  employment  to  a  large  number 
of  men.  The  splendid  success  of  the  business  is 
largely  due  to  Mr.  Wisdom's  excellent  manage- 
ment and  unusual  business  capacity. 


REPRESENTATIVE  MEN  AND  HOMES. 


WILLIARD  P.  UPHAM. 


Mr.  Willard  P.  Upham,  one  of  the  substantial 
citizens  and  representative  business  men  of 
Quincy,  is  descended  from  the  Pilgrim  fathers 
and  inherits  their  sturdy  characteristics.  His 
ancestors  were  among  the  early  settlers  of  New 
England,  they  having  come  to  America  in  1635, 
and  settled  in  Massachusetts  only  fifteen  years 
after  the  landing  at  Plymouth  Rock.  They  were 
identified  with  the  early  Indian  wars  and  with 
the  development  of  New  England,  and  the  fam- 
ily history  contains  the  names  of  several 
soldiers  of  the  war  of  the  revolution. 

Mr.  Upham  was  born  in  Melrose,  Mass.,  in 
1841,  that  city  having  also  been  his  father's 
native  place,  and  with  such  sturdy  blood  in  his 
veins  he  was  bound  to  become  a  leader.  After 
leaving  school  he  determined  upon  a  commer- 
cial life,  and  served  his  first  apprenticeship  in  a 
large  wholesale  dry  goods  store  in  Boston.  He 
came  west  in  the  early  sixties,  locating  first  at 
Washington,  Iowa,  where  he  engaged  in  the 
retail  boot  and  shoe  business.  Three  years 
later  he  removed  to  Keokuk,  Iowa,  where  he 
embarked  in  the  same  business,  afterwards 
enlarging  it  to  a  wholesale  as  well  as  retail 
house.  He  came  to  Quincy  in  1878,  succeeding 
the  old  established  boot  aod  shoe  house  of  C. 
Brown,  Jr.,  the  firm  name  being  Upham,  Gordon 
&  Co.  Mr.  J.  W.  Sinnock  was  the  third  member, 
but  he  withdrew  later,  and  was  succeeded  in  the 
firm  by  Charles  C.  Upham.  The  retail  branch 
of  the  business  was  abandoned  after  a  time  and 
the  firm  devoted  itself  exclusively  to  the  whole- 
sale trade,  in  which  it  has  been  remarkably 
successful,  its  operatiocs  extending  all  over  the 
west. 

Politically,  Mr.  Upham  is  a  republican,  and  in 
spite  of  his  extensive  business  cares  has  found 
time  to  devote  attention  to  politics  in  the  broad- 
est sense.  He  has  never  held  a  public  office  and 
has  never  permitted  the  use  of  his  name,  but  he 
has  been  actively  identified  with  many  impor- 
tant movements  for  the  advancement  of  the 
public  weal.  He  took  an  active  part  in  the 
organization  of  the  Quincy  Chamber  of  Com- 
merce, and  was  elected  its  first  president,  which 
office  he  still  holds.  Under  his  capable  direc- 
tion and  wise  administration,  the  Chamber  of 
Commerce  has  become  a  potent  instrument  for 
the  upbuilding  of  Quincy,  and  a  number  of 


accomplished  benefits  stand  as  monuments  to 
his  zeal  and  energy.  Through  him  the  Chamber 
of  Commerce  assisted  in  successfully  promoting 
the  new  Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy  Railroad 
terminals,  the  new  wagon  bridge,  the  public 
market,  the  hard  road  across  the  river  in  Mis- 
souri, and  it  is  now  engaged  in  the  movement 
for  the  construction  of  good  roads  in  Adams 
County,  and  in  the  cultivation  of  the  sugar  beet 
in  this  section  of  the  state,  with  the  ultimate 


object  of  building  a  large  beet  sugar  factory 
here. 

Mr.  Upham  is  one  of  the  representative  men 
of  the  commercial  and  financial  interests  of 
Quincy.  He  was  for  years  a  director  of  the  First 
National  Bank,  and  when  it  was  consolidated 
with  the  State  Savings,  Loan  and  Trust  Com- 
pany he  was  elected  a  member  of  the  directory 
of  the  consolidated  banks.  He  is  also  active  in 
charitable  and  philanthropic  work,  is  a  liberal 
but  unostentatious  contributor  to  all  worthy 
causes,  and  is  one  of  the  trustees  of  Blessing 
Hospital. 


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REPRESENTATIVE  MEN  AND  HOMES. 


FREDERICK  W.  MENKE. 


Few  citizens  of  Quincy  are  more  widely 
known  than  Mr.  Frederick  W.  Menke,  the  head 
of  the  important  stone  industry  which  bears  his 
name.  He  is  one  of  the  leading  contractors  in 
stone  work  in  the  west,  and  the  Adams  County 
court  house,  the  Quincy  public  library  build- 
ing, the  court  house  at  Kirksville,  Mo.,  and 


many  other  public  and  private  buildings  in  this 
and  adjoining  states  are  monuments  to  his  skill 
and  honesty. 

Mr.  Menke  is  a  native  of  Westphalia,  Prussia, 
and  was  born  August  12,  1832,  the  eldest  of  six 
children  of  Herman  H.  and  Hannah  (Ricksick) 
Menke.  His  father  was  a  farmer  and  veterinary 
surgeon,  and  Mr.  Menke  spent  his  boyhood  in 
attending  school  in  his  native  town  and  helping 
his  father  on  the  farm.  When  twenty  years  old 
he  decided  to  come  to  America,  and  landed  in 
New  Orleans  in  1852,  coming  thence  direct  to 


Quincy.  He  learned  the  trade  of  stone  cutter, 
and  worked  at  the  trade  as  a  journeyman  until 
1863,  when  he  went  into  business  for  himself  as 
a  contractor.  In  1886  he  organized  the  F.  W. 
Menke  Stone  and  Lime  Company,  and  he  has 
ever  since  actively  directed  its  affairs.  His  skill 
as  a  builder  is  unquestioned,  and  his  honesty  is 
unimpeachable.  Many  contracts  have  been 
awarded  to  him  without  competition.  Many 
important  buildings  in  Quincy  and  adjoining 
cities  are  monuments  to  his  skill,  and  it  has 
come  to  be  an  axiom  in  building  operations  that 
"if  Menke  does  the  work  it  is  well  done."  His 
operations  extend  all  over  the  west,  and  he  has 
constructed  large  buildings  in  Springfield, 
Peoria  and  other  cities.  He  is  the  contractor 
for  the  new  depot  of  the  Chicago,  Burlington  & 
Quincy  in  this  city.  His  company  owns  exten- 
sive stone  yards  and  a  stone  saw  mill  at  the  foot 
of  State  street,  and  very  often  a  large  building 
is  sawed  out  there  and  then  shipped  to  a  distant 
city  for  erection. 

As  a  man  and  a  citizen,  Mr.  Menke  possesses 
the  most  implicit  confidence  of  the  whole  com- 
munity, and  his  fellow  citizens  have  taken 
delight  in  conferring  honors  upon  him  He 
served  twelve  years  in  the  City  Council  as  an 
alderman  from  the  Fourth  Ward,  and  also 
served  two  years  in  the  county  board  of  super- 
visors. He  is  a  republican  in  politics,  and  in 
1892  was  a  presidential  elector.  In  1897  Gover- 
nor Tanner  appointed  him  one  of  the  commis- 
sioners of  the  new  insane  asylum  at  Peoria,  an 
appointment  that  was  commended  all  over  the 
state,  political  opponents  of  the  Governor  join- 
ing in  the  general  commendation  of  the  wisdom 
of  the  selection  of  Mr.  Menke.  In  the  spring  of 
1899  the  republicans  urged  him  to  become  their 
candidate  for  mayor,  but  he  declined  the  honor, 
although  the  election  was  practically  assured. 

Mr.  Menke  was  married  in  1855  to  Miss  Louisa 
Wulfmeyer,  daughter  of  Henry  Wulfmeyer,  and 
six  children  have  blessed  iheir  union — Amelia, 
widow  of  Frank  Hagenbruch,  William  G., 
Edward  H.,  John  H.,  Mrs.  Edward  Ruff,  and 
Fred  C.  Menke. 


REPRESENTATIVE  MEN  AND  HOMES. 


SAMUEL  H.  EMERY,  Jr. 


Mr.  Samuel  Hopkins  Emery,  Jr.,  is  the  eldest 
living  son  of  the  Rev.  Dr.  S.  H.  Emery,  Sr.,  of 
Taunton,  Mass.,  and  inherits  many  of  his  fath- 
er's qualities  of  mind  and  body.  Tall  and 
straight  as  an  arrow,  of  unusually  fine  pres- 
ence, he  is  a  man  who  would  command  attention 
in  any  assemblage.  By  reason  of  his  broad  and 
comprehensive  learning,  he  is  a  strong  and 
convincing  writer  and  a  ready  speaker.  While 
he  holds  positive  opinions  and  is  frank  in  ex- 


and  was  director  of  the  famous  Concord  School 
of  Philosophy  during  the  entire  term  of  its  ex- 
istence. Deciding  to  again  locate  in  Quincy,  he 
associated  himself  with  the  Quincy  Paper  Co., 
as  vice-president.  On  the  organization  of  the 
American  Straw  Board  Co.,  in  1889,  which  ab- 
sorbed the  Quincy  plant,  Mr.  Emery  became 
manager  of  the  Quincy  mills  and  was  after- 
wards made  auditor  of  the  American  Straw 
Board  Co.,  which  position  he  now  holds.  He  is 


pressing  them,  he  is  fair  and  considerate  in  all 
things.  In  business  Mr.  Emery  has  been  uni- 
formly successful.  He  was  born  at  Taunton, 
Mass.,  Aug.  3,  1840,  and  after  leaving  Bristol 
Academy  attended  Harvard  and  Amherst  Col- 
leges. In  1856  he  came  to  Quincy,  where  his 
father  was  then  located,  and  he  was  for  twenty- 
three  years  identified  with  the  Comstock  Stove 
Foundry.  In  1879  he  returned  to  Massachusetts, 
taking  a  course  at  Harvard  Law  School  and 
devoting  his  attention  to  legal  practice  in  Bos- 
ton. In  1882  he  received  the -degree  of  LL.  B. 
from  Harvard,  the  degree  of  A.  M.  having  been 
conferred  on  him  by  Amherst  College  in  1870. 
While  in  Massachusetts  he  resided  at  Concord 


also  president  of  the  Electric  Wheel  Co.  and 
vice-president  of  the  Channon-Emery  Stove  Co, 
In  1865  he  was  married  to  Miss  Mary  M.  Mc- 
Clure,  daughter  of  the  Rev.  Alexander  W. 
McClure,  D.  D.,  of  Canonsburgh,  Pa.  They  have 
one  daughter,  Mrs.  A.  S.  Ellis,  of  this  city. 
Business  cares  rest  lightly  on  Mr.  Emery.  While 
he  has  large  and  important  interests  to  look 
after,  he  has  the  faculty  of  grasping  a  subject 
quickly  and  disposing  of  a  vast  amount  of  de- 
tail in  a  very  short  time.  A  generous  supporter 
of  worthy  charities,  he  gives  freely  of  his  means 
to  various  causes.  In  all  the  relations  of  life 
Mr.  Emery  is  a  well  rounded,  evenly  balanced 
man. 


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REPRESENTATIVE;  MEN  AND  HOMES. 


GEORGE  E.  RICKER. 

Counted  by  years,  Mr.  George  E.  Ricker  is  a 
young  man,  but  he  is  old  in  business  and  finan- 
cial experience,  and  occupies  an  eminent 
position  in  the  financial  world.  He  is  a  son  of 
Mr.  H.  F.  J.  Ricker,  one  of  the  pioneers  of 
Quincy,  and  was  born  in  this  city  November  1, 
1866.  After  completing  his  common  school  edu- 
cation here  he  attended  Pio  Nono  College, 
Milwaukee,  where  he  graduated  high  in  his 
class.  He  entered  the  Ricker  National  Bank  in 
1887  in  the  bookkeeping  department.  He  is  a 
natural  banker,  and  his  abilities  advanced  him 
from  one  position  to  another  until  in  1893  he 
was  elected  cashier  of  this,  the  largest  bank  in 
the  state,  outside  of  Chicago.  Since  then  he  has 
had  the  practical  active  charge  of  the  vast  busi- 
ness of  the  bank,  and  has  conducted  it  with 
remarkable  judgment  and  ability.  So  success- 
ful has  been  his  administration  of  the  affairs  of 
the  bank  that  its  business  has  shown  a  wonder- 
ful increase,  now  reaching  a  total  of  over 
$3,000,000.  His  methods  are  careful  and  conser- 
vative, as  he  fully  appreciates  that  the  savings 
of  thousands  of  people  are  entrusted  to  his  care, 
but  while  conscientiously  careful  he  is  at  the 
same  time  enterprising  and  public-spirited,  and 
the  assistance  of  the  bank  is  never  withheld 
where  it  can  be  safely  bestowed.  He  is  a  far- 


seeing  financier,  and    his    sound    judgment  is 
recognized  throughout  the  financial  world. 

Mr.  Ricker  was  married  in  1892  to  Miss  Jose- 
phine Wahl,  the  eldest  daughter  of  Frederick 
Wahl,  Sr.,  and  they  have  three  bright  children — 
two  sons  and  a  daughter.  Their  beautiful  home 
at  Eighth  and  Spring  streets  is  one  of  the  hand- 
somest in  the  city,  and  the  interior  of  it  shows 
the  rare  taste  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ricker. 

JAMES  J.  WALSH. 

Born  at  Lockport,  N.  Y.,  Mr.  James  J.  Walsh 
comes  of  distinguished  revolutionary  stock,  his 
ancestors  having  been  pioneer  residents  of 
Western  New  York.  He  was  educated  at  De 
Veaux  College,  a  military  school  at  Niagara 
Falls,  and  afterwards  attended  Hobart  College 
at  Geneva,  N.  Y.  In  1879  he  located  at  Cincin- 
nati with  a  jobbing  grocery  house  and  two  years 
later  associated  himself  with  the  late  T.  H. 
Jackson  at  Atchison,  Kan.,  in  the  manufacture 
of  Jackson's  Common  Sense  Liniment.  In  1883 
the  business  was  removed  to  Quincy,  where  it 
has  since  been  conducted  and  has  assumed  large 
importance.  Much  of  the  success  of  this  busi- 
ness is  due  to  Mr.  Walsh's  original  and  effective 
methods  of  advertising,  the  merits  of  his  medi- 


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cine  being  strongly  presented.  During  his  resi- 
dence here  Mr.  Walsh  has  identified  himself 
with  every  movement. for  advancing  the  public 
welfare.  While  he  has  devoted  himself  to  his 
business,  he  has  found  time  to  assist  in  promot- 
ing many  important  public  enterprises.  Pos- 
sessed of  tireless  energy,  methodical  in  every- 
thing he  undertakes,  his  work  is  always  effec- 
tive and  has  brought  about  substantial  results. 
His  capacity  for  organization  and  his  executive 
ability  have  been  freely  devoted  to  many  impor- 
tant undertakings  calculated  to  promote  the 
development  of  the  city  and  to  many  worthy 
charitable  causes.  Mr.  Walsh  was  married  at 
Atchison,  Kan.,  in  February,  1884,  to  Miss  Jose- 
phine Wills,  of  that  city. 

EDWIN  FREEMAN  BRADFORD. 

A  descendant  of  William  Bradford,  first  gov- 
ernor of  Plymouth  colony  and  great  grandson  of 
Captain  Samuel  Bradford  of  Connecticut,  was 
born  in  Southbridge,  Mass.,  April  27,  1841.  Be- 
ing the  son  of  a  farmer  he  had  the  ordinary 
advantages  of  the  district  school  common  to  all 
the  New  England  farmer  boys.  Family  reverses 
and  the  death  of  his  mother  early  compelled 
him  to  make  his  own  way  in  the  world.  After 
serving  an  apprenticeship  at  the  trade  of  shoe- 
making  he  entered  Nichols  Academy  in  Dudley, 
Mass.,  at  the  age  of  sixteen.  By  working  at  his 
trade  on  Saturdays,  doing  farm  work  in  the 
summer,  and  teaching  school  in  winter,  he  was 
enabled  to  work  his  way  through  the  academy 
in  five  years.  Learning  that  telegraph  opera- 
tors were  needed  in  Illinois  he  went  to  Nashua, 
N.  H.,  and  spent  three  months  studying  telegra- 
phy. 

With  letters  of  recommendation  to  A.  N. 
Towne,  then  assistant  superintendent  of  the 
Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy  in  Chicago,  he 
came  to  Illinois  in  November,  1863,  and  the  next 
month  commenced  work  for  the  Chicago,  Bur- 
lington &  Quincy  at  Kewanee.  The  next  year 
he  went  to  Young  America  as  clerk  and  opera- 
tor. In  1865  he  was  given  the  position  of  sta- 
tion agent  at  Macomb,  where  he  remained  until 
1881.  In  1868  he  married  Miss  Emily  M.  Prince, 
of  Dudley,  Mass.,  who  was  also  educated  at 
Nichols  Academy,  and  whos'e  grandfather  was 
one  of  the  minute  men  at  the  battle  of  Lexing- 
ton. In  1881  Mr.  Bradford  was  transferred  to 
Hannibal  in  charge  of  the  business  of  the  C.,  B. 
&  Q.  and  St.  L.,  K.  &  N.  W.  railroads.  Two 


years  later  the  H.  &  St.  J.  business  was  added 
and  his  title  made  general  agent.  In  1887  he 
was  transferred  to  Quincy,  where,  besides  being 
in  charge  of  the  city  business  of  the  above  men- 
tioned lines,  he  has  charge  of  the  freight  and 
passenger  business  of  the  Burlington  system" 
through  Illinois  from  Louisiana,  Mo.,  to  Bur- 
lington, Iowa.  During  his  twelve  years  residence 


here  Mr.  Bradford  has  thoroughly  identified 
himself  with  the  best  interests  of  the  city.  He 
has  taken  an  active  part  in  many  important 
movements  for  the  public  welfare,  his  keen  fore- 
sight, conservative  judgment  and  untiring 
energy  making  him  a  strong  factor  among  rep- 
resentative business  men.  Whatever  he  under- 
takes is  carefully  and  thoroughly  done  and  he  is 
one  of  the  men  who  bring  about  results.  The 
development  in  Quincy  of  the  business  of  the 
great  railway  system  which  he  represents, 
resulting  in  the  building  of  the  handsome  new 
passenger  station,  the  new  depot  and  the  new 
system  of  terminals  here,  involving  the  expendi- 
ture of  nearly  a  million  dollars,  is  conclusive 
evidence  of  his  ability  as  a  railway  official.  Per- 
sonally of  a  modest,  retiring  nature,  Mr.  Brad- 
ford is  a  strong  man  in  business  and  a  strong 
man  in  the  community. 


&EPRESENTATIVE  MEN  AND  HOMES. 


JOSEPH  L.  MORGAN. 


In  the  coterie  of  Quincy's  most  active  and 
public  spirited  business  men  Major  Joseph  L. 
Morgan  has  held  a  prominent  place  for  many 
years.  Ever  ready  to  do  his  full  share  in  pro- 
moting every  worthy  public  enterprise,  he  has 
been  identified  with  every  movement  for  pro- 
moting the  general  welfare  and  advancing  the 
interests  of  the  city.  His  efforts  are  always  well 
directed  and  effective.  Major  Morgan  was  born 
at  Alton,  111.,  March  8,  1843.  His  father,  James 


States  for  bravery  and  valor  at  the  battle  of 
Nashville.  Major  Morgan  served  on  the  staff  of 
General  John  Newton,  General  Wagner  and 
General  Washington  L.  Elliott  and  did  not  leave 
the  service  until  after  the  close  of  the  war.  His 
regiment  probably  saw  as  hard  and  desperate 
service  as  any  command  in  the  Union  army.  On 
December  12,  1862,  four  months  after  he  enlisted 
he  participated  in  the  battle  of  Stone  River, 
under  Rosenkranz,  a  five-days  fight  and  one  of 


Madison  Morgan,  came  from  Baltimore  to  Alton 
in  1836  and  was  one  of  the  most  prominent  of 
the  early  residents  of  the  town.  After  securing 
a  good  common  school  education  the  son  was 
employed  as  a  salesman  at  Alton  for  a  time  and 
in  the  fall  of  1861  came  to  Quincy  to  attend 
school.  August  10,  1862.  when  nineteen  years  of 
age,  he  left  school  to  enlist  in  Company  H, 
Seventy-third  Illinois  Volunteer  Infantry  and 
was  appointed  sergeant.  On  February  28,  1863, 
he  was  elected  first  lieutenant  of  his  company 
and  the  following  April  was  commissioned  cap- 
tain. June  14,  1864,  he  was  detached  from  his 
command  and  detailed  as  assitant  inspector 
general  of  the  Second  Division,  Fourth  Army 
Corps,  Army  of  the  Cumberland,  serving  in  the 
Atlantic  campaign.  In  December,  1864,  he  was 
breveted  major  by  the  president  of  the  United 


the  most  desperate  of  the  war.  The  following 
March  he  participated  in  the  special  campaign 
around  Franklin,  Tenn.,  and  on  June  16  started 
on  the  campaign  to  drive  Bragg  out  of  the  state, 
forcing  him  to  the  river.  In  September  his  com- 
mand assisted  in  driving  the  rebels  across  Look- 
out Mountain  to  Alpine,  Ga.,  when  he  recrossed 
the  mountain  and  participated  in  the  desperate 
battle  of  Chickamauga,  September  19  and  20.  It 
was  in  this  battle  that  Mr.  C.  H.  Castle,  who  was 
in  Major  Morgan's  regiment,  was  shot  five 
times.  On  November  23  the  Union  army  moved 
out  of  Chattanooga  and  pressed  the  rebels  back 
to  the  base  of  Missionary  Ridge.  Two  days  later 
the  battle  of  Mission  Ridge  was  fought,  Major 
Morgan's  command  being  in  the  advance  line 
of  that  memorable  charge,  going  up  the  ridge 
immediately  in  front  of  General  Bragg's  head- 


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quarters  and  capturing  a  part  of  his  staff.  Soon 
after  the  division  to  which  Major  Morgan  be- 
longed, started  to  relieve  Burnside  at  Knoxville, 
Tenn.,  marching  across  the  country  and  finding 
their  own  subsistence.  On  that  campaign  he 
commanded  his  regiment.  In  the  spring  of  1864 
he  started  on  the  Atlantic  campaign,  participat- 
ing in  the  battles  of  Rocky  Face  Ridge,  near 
Dalton,  Ga.,  New  Hope  Church,  Peach  Tree 
Creek,  the  seige  of  Atlanta  and  the  campaign 
around  Atlanta  to  Jonesboro.  His  command 
was  on  duty  night  and  day  from  May  3  to  Sep- 
tember 8,  and  was  in  constant  peril.  In  the  fall 
of  1864  he  returned  to  Pulaski,  Tenn.,  to  oppose 
Hood's  army  and  assisted  in  resisting  the  rebel 
advance  from  there  to  Nashville,  a  distance  of 
seventy-two  miles,  with  almost  uninterrupted 
fighting  for  four  or  five  days.  His  division  was 
the  rear  guard  of  the  army  up  to  Franklin, 
Tenn.  On  November  30  the  battle  of  Franklin 
occurred,  his  division  bearing  the  brunt  of  the 
engagement.  This  battle  was  one  of  the  most 
memorable  of  the  war,  thirteen  rebel  generals 
being  killed  or  wounded  and  6,000  rebel  soldiers 
killed  and  wounded.  At  midnight  his  command 
marched  on  to  Nashville,  where  General 
Thomas  reorganized  his  army.  December  14  and 
35  the  battle  of  Nashville  was  fought.  In  the 
afternoon  of  the  second  day  Hood's  army  was 
completely  routed.  Major  Morgan's  command 
then  went  into  winter  quarters  at  Huntsville, 
Ala.,  and  in  the  spring  of  1865  campaigned  in 
East  Tennessee  until  the  war  closed,  being  mus- 
tered out  of  service  at  Nashville,  June  12,  1865. 
In  the  foregoing  the  record  of  this  brave  officer 
and  fearless  soldier  is  too  briefly  told.  At  the 
close  of  the  war  Major  Morgan  returned  to 
Quincy  and  secured  employment  as  a  clerk.  In 
April,  1871,  the  present  firm  of  Clark  &  Morgan 
was  established  at  643  Hampshire  street.  They 
soon  after  removed  to  422  Maine  street,  where 
they  built  up  one  of  the  leading  bakery  and  con- 
fectionery and  foreign  fruit  establishments  of 
this  entire  section.  Major  Morgan  was  married 
February  7,  1867,  to  Miss  Helen  M.  Van  Doom, 
eldest  daughter  of  the  late  John  K.  Van  Doom. 

DICKERSON  McAFEE. 

Mr.  Dickerson  McAfee,  president  of  the 
Thomas  White  Stove  Company,  was  born  at 
Shelbyville,  Mo.,  June  24,  18.48.  His  boyhood 
was  spent  in  working  on  a  farm  and  attending 
a  district  school.  When  seventeen  years  of  age 
he  came  to  Quincy  and  secured  a  position  in 
C.  A.  Richardson's  grocery  store,  in  the  Rogers' 
building,  corner  Sixth  and  Hampshire  streets. 
Soon  after  Richardson  &  Taylor  built  the  old 
Quincy  turnpike,  from  West  Quincy  to  the 


Fabius  bridge,  and  Mr.  McAfee  worked  for  them 
as  foreman  and  timekeeper.  He  saved  enough 
money  from  his  wages  to  take  a  complete  com- 
mercial course  in  Bryant  &  Stratton's  business 
college,  and  in  March,  1869,  accepted  a  position 
in  Mr.  Thomas  White's  stove  foundry  as  book- 
keeper and  shipping  clerk.  His  capacity  for 
business  at  once  manifested  itself  and  his 
advancement  was  rapid,  continuing  until  he  has 
become  president  of  the  incorporated  company. 
In  every  relation  in  life  Mr.  McAfee  has  the 


courage  of  his  convictions  and  is  characterized 
by  thoroughness  and  attention  to  details. 
Serving  in  the  City  Council  of  1895-97,  he  was 
one  of  the  strongest  and  most  influential  mem- 
bers. Every  question  affecting  the  welfare  of 
the  city  received  his  careful  attention  and  his 
services  were  of  far-reaching  value.  In  1895  he 
was  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Education  and 
no  member  of  the  board  ever  accomplished  more 
for  the  advancement  and  development  of  the 
public  schools.  He  was  largely  instrumental  in 
bringing  about  needed  reforms  and  elevating 
the  standard  of  the  High  School  and  in  provid- 
ing additional  facilities  in  several  of  the  school 
districts.  He  is  also  a  director  in  the  Quincy 
Freight  Bureau  and  was  a  member  of  the  com- 
mittee of  three  from  that  body  which  was 
instrumental  in  bringing  about  the  extensive 
Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy  Railroad  im- 
provements now  in  progress  here  and  which 
embrace  new  passenger  and  freight  depots  and  a 
new  railroad  and  wagon  bridge  across  the  river. 


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REPRESENTATIVE  MEN  AND  HOMES. 


JAMES  E.  ADAMS. 


The  life  of  Major  Adams  has  been  an  active 
one  and  has  been  filled  with  eventful  and  highly 
interesting  experiences.  He  was  born  January 
15,  1848,  at  the  southeast  corner  of  Fourth  and 
Broadway,  the  old  homestead  still  standing  just 
as  it  was  over  fifty  years  ago.  He  is  a  son  of 
Mr.  James  Adams,  who  died  in  Quincy  June  22, 
1888,  and  Mary  Glentworth  Arrowsmith,  who  is 
still  living  in  this  city.  His  parents  were  mar- 
ried in  Quincy,  May  17,  1843,  at  the  residence  of 
Mrs.  Adams'  mother,  Fourth  and  Vermont 
streets,  now  the  Lindsey  Church  Home.  Both 


his  father  and  mother  located  here  in  1839.  Mr. 
James  Adams,  with  his  brother,  George,  built 
the  first  foundry  in  Quincy,  the  first  north  and 
west  of  St.  Louis,  the  parent  institution  of  the 
present  great  foundry  business  of  this  city. 
Both  were  for  more  than  fifty  years  leading 
business  men  and  Quincy  owes  much  to  their 
enterprise  and  public  spirit.  After  disposing  of 
their  foundry  interests,  they  engaged  in  the 
produce  business  and  became  the  largest  ship- 
pers of  grain  and  produce  in  this  vicinity.  For 
forty  years  they  were  also  among  the  leading 
pork  packers  of  this  section  of  country.  Mr. 
Edward  Arrowsmith,  the  maternal  grandfather 
of  Major  Adams,  entered  a  large  tract  of  land 


east  of  Thirtieth  street  and  north  of  Broadway 
in  1818.  Major  Adams  was  educated  in  the  pub- 
lic schools  of  Quincy  and  in  the  Quincy  Semi- 
nary. In  April,  1864,  when  sixteen  years  of  age, 
he  enlisted  in  the  137th  Illinois  Volunteer  In- 
fantry. At  the  close  of  the  war  he  accepted  the 
position  of  transfer  clerk  for  the  Great  Western 
Dispatch.  This  was  before  the  railroad  bridge 
was  built  at  Quincy  and  thousands  of  tons  of 
freight  was  transferred  by  ferry  boat  every  xiay. 
He  was  afterwards  cashier  for  the  Mercnants' 
Union  Express  Company  and  also  helped  sur- 
vey the  Q.,  M.  &  P.  Railway.  In  1869  he  decided 
to  go  to  the  southwest  and  engaged  in  the  bank- 
ing business  at  Weatherford,  Texas,  after  serv- 
ing as  clerk  of  the  Parker  County  \Texas) 
circuit  court.  In  1872  he  was  appointed  post 
trader  in  the  regular  army  by  President  Grant 
and  was  assigned  to  Fort  Griffin,  Texas.  On 
February  11,  1874,  he  was  married  in  Weather- 
ford  to  Mrs.  Sallie  White  Ellison,  a  daughter  of 
Dr.  James  B.  White,  of  Danville,  Ky.  Three 
daughters  were  born  to  this  union.  In  1876 
Major  Adams  located  at  Edina,  Mo.,  and  was 
one  of  the  organizers  of  the  Bank  of  Edina,  of 
which  he  was  cashier  until  1892.  He  was  com- 
missioner of  the  United  States  district  court  for 
the  eastern  district  of  Missouri  from  1878  to 
1892  and  was  a  delegate  to  the  republican 
national  convention  of  1880  from  the  First 
Missouri  District,  being  one  of  the  306  who  cast 
thirty-six  consecutive  ballots  for  the  renomina- 
tion  of  President  Grant  in  that  memorable 
convention.  For  four  years  he  was  chairman 
of  the  First  district  republican  central  commit- 
tee and  was  mayor  of  Edina  for  four  years. 
During  his  term  as  chief  executive  many  impor- 
tant improvements  were  undertaken  and  the 
city  developed  rapidly.  He  was  president  of  the 
Marceline  Town  and  Land  Company  that 
platted  the  city  of  Marceline,  Mo.,  and  was  pres- 
ident of  the  Marceline  Coal  Mining  Company 
that  sunk  the  shafts  and  developed  the  mines  of 
what  is  now  one  of  the  most  valuable  coal  prop- 
erties in  the  west.  In  1892  Major  Adams 
returned  to  Quincy  and  is  now  a  member  of  the 
firm  of  Wells  &  Adams,  extensive  mortgage 
bankers.  In  the  last  presidential  campaign  he 
was  president  of  the  McKinley  club  and  was 
active  in  the  party  organizations.  He  is  now 
vice-chairman  of  the  republican  county  central 
committee.  A  man  of  iron  will  and  great  energy, 
Major  Adams  seldom  falls  short  of  success  in 
whatever  he  undertakes. 


REPRESENTATIVE  MEN  AND  HOMES. 


WILLIAM    SOMERVILLE. 


Captain  William  Somerville  has  had  a  distin- 
guished career  as  soldier,  internal  revenue 
officer  and  political  leader.  He  was  born  in 
Pennsylvania  August  15,1837.  The  founder  of  the 
family  in  America,  James  Somerville,  emigrated 
from  Scotland  in  1735,  and  settled  at  Hollidays- 
burg,  Pa.,  which  was  the  family  home  until 
1850.  Captain  Somerville's  grandfather,  James 
Somerville,  was  a  soldier  in  the  revolutionary 
war,  and  died  in  1840,  at  the  venerable  age  of  90 
years.  Captain  Somerville's  father,  James 
Somerville  III.,  was  born  in  1800,  and  married 
Miss  Susan  Stover,  a  native  of  Maryland,  and  a 
descendant  of  Dutch  stock.  They  moved  to 
Carthage,  Hancock  County,  Illinois,  in  1850,  and 
the  subject  of  this  sketch,  then  a  boy  of  13,  came 
with  them,  settling  on  a  farm.  The  father  went 
to  California  during  the  gold  excitement,  but 
remained  only  a  short  time,  when  he  returned 
to  Carthage. 

Captain  Somerville's  early  education  was  ob- 
tained in  the  public  schools.  When  the  civil 
war  broke  out  he  responded  to  President  Lin- 
coln's first  call  for  troops,  enlisting  May  9,  1861, 
as  a  private  in  Company  D,  Sixteenth  Illinois 
Volunteer  Infantry.  His  military  title  was  won 
by  gallant  services  on  the  battle  fields  of  the 
south.  The  Sixteenth  Illinois  was  one  of  the 
famous  regiments  of  the  western  armies,  and  he 
was  with  it  constantly  until  his  army  service 
was  ended  by  a  minnie  ball  at  Bentonville,  N. 
C.,  in  1865.  Captain  Somerville  participated  in 
the  battle  of  New  Madrid,  the  operations  before 
Island  No.  10,  the  siege  and  battle  of  Corinth, 
two  battles  of  Farmington,  and  fought  all 
through  the  Atlanta  campaign,  his  conspicuous 
bravery  winning  him  commendation  from  his 
superior  officers  and  successive  promotions.  He 
was  with  Sherman  on  the  march  to  the  sea,  and 
then  up  through  the  Carolinas.  His  regiment 
was  a  part  of  General  James  D.  Morgan's  bri- 
gade, which  was  some  distance  from  the  main 
army  at  Bentonville,  N.  C.,  and  was  there  at- 
tacked by  a  greatly  superior  force  of  the  enemy. 
The  battle  lasted  all  day,  and  the  enemy  was 
finally  repulsed  with  great  gallantry.  It  was  in 
that  engagement  that  Captain  Somerville  was 
woundel  in  the  groin  by  a  minnie  bullet. 

By  the  time  he  had  recovered  from  his  wound 
the  war  had  ended,  and  Captain  Somerville  then 
entered  the  internal  revenue  service,  with  which 
he  was  identified  for  twenty-eight  years.  He 
attained  national  distinction  in  that  service,  and 
was  instrumental  in  the  apprehension  of  more 


moonshine  distillers  and  crooked  employes  of 
the  government  than  any  other  man  in  the  ser- 
vice. An  officer  of  tireless  energy  and  utterly 
fearless,  he  penetrated  the  mountain  fastnesses 
of  the  south,  the  favorite  habitat  of  the  moon- 
shiners, and  so  successful  was  he  in  the  pursuit 
of  illicit  distillers  th  at  the  moonshiners  placed 
a  price  upon  his  head  and  vowed  to  shoot  him  if 
they  ever  got  the  chance.  But  Captain  Somer- 
ville only  laughed  at  their  threats,  which,  how- 


ever, were  in  deadly  earnest,  and  there  is  little 
doubt  but  that  they  would  have  sought  venge- 
ance in  his  death  had  he  given  them  the  oppor- 
tunity. 

As  a  revenue  officer,  Captain  Somerville  trav- 
eled in  almost  every  state  in  the  union,  and  left 
the  service  in  the  spring  of  1897  to  accept  the 
position  of  superintendent  of  the  Soldiers'  Home 
at  Quincy,  to  which  he  was  appointed  by  Gover- 
nor Tanner.  His  administration  of  the  affairs 
of  that  institution  has  been  most  successful, 
demonstrating  executive  ability  of  the  highest 
order. 

Captain  Somerville  has  always  been  a  staunch 
republican,  and  in  1896  was  chairman  of  the 
Adams  county  republican  central  committee. 


REPRESENTATIVE  MEN  AND  HOMES. 


Adams  county  is  a  democratic  stronghold,  but 
in  that  year  it  gave  a  majority  for  the  republi- 
can candidate  for  president  and  elected  the 
whole  republican  ticket,  for  the  first  time  in  its 
history.  Captain  Somerville  has  made  Quincy 
his  home  since  1870,  his  family  consisting  of  his 
wife,  son  and  daughter.  The  son,  James  Som- 
erville, is  now  freight  terminal  agent  of  the  Chi- 
cago, Burlington  &  Quincy  Railroad  at  St. 
Louis,  and  the  daughter,  Miss  Carrie  Somerville, 
is  at  home.  He  is  a  Mason  of  high  degree,  being 
a  Knight  Templar,  and  is  also  prominently  iden- 
tified with  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic  and 
the  Loyal  Legion. 

CHARLES  H.  WILLIAMSON. 

Mr.  Charles  H.  Williamson  is  one  of  the  seven 
representative  democrats  of  the  country  to 
whom  the  sound  money  movement  of  the  cam- 
paign of  1896  is  due  and  who  issued  the  first  call 
for  a  sound  money  conference.  This  movement 
had  its  inception  in  Illinois  the  year  previous, 
the  keynote  being  struck  by  Mr.  Williamson  at 
the  free  silver  convention  held  at  Springfield. 
He  was  the  chairman  of  the  Adams  county  dele- 
gation to  that  convention  and  was  the  only  del- 
egate who  spoke  against  free  silver,  his 
address  being  cut  off  by  a  motion  for 
the  previous  question.  The  large  body  of 
democrats  in  the  state  and  the  nation 
who  favored  the  gold  standard  promptly 
effected  an  organization,  in  which  Mr.  William- 
son was  a  prominent  factor.  He  was  the  vice- 
chairman  of  the  sound  money  democratic  state 
central  committee  and  chairman  of  the  execu- 
tive committee  and  on  him  devolved  the  active 
management  of  the  campaign.  He  was  also 
secretary  of  the  Illinois  delegation  to  the 
national  convention  at  Indianapolis,  of  which 
the  Hon.  John  M.  Palmer  was  chairman,  and 
was  the  chairman  of  the  Illinois  delegation  at 
both  sessions  of  the  Indianapolis  monetary  con- 
vention. It  is  fair  to  assume  that  the  success 
of  this  memorable  movement  in  the  presidential 
campaign  of  1896,  one  of  the  most  important  in 
the  history  of  the  nation,  was  largely  due  to  his 
aggressive  stand  against  free  silver  when  that 
issue  was  first  presented  and  to  his  constant  and 
untiring  efforts  in  the  interest  of  honest  cur- 
rency. 

Mr.  Williamson  is  a  son  of  Mr.  H.  A.  William- 
son, and  was  born  in  this  city  September  1,  1862. 
He  was  the  valedictorian  of  the  class  of  1882  at 
Racine  College,  completing  the  classical  course 
and  receiving  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Arts. 
The  chair  of  Latin  and  the  chair  of  mathematics 


were  offered  to  him,  but  he  preferred  active 
business  and  for  two  years  was  associated  with 
his  father.  He  then  took  a  post-graduate  course 
of  four  years  at  Columbia  College,  New  York, 
with  the  degree  of  P.  H.  B.  The  degree  of  Mas- 
ter of  Arts  was  subsequently  conferred  by 
Racine  College.  In  1888  he  returned  to  Qujncy 
and  engaged  in  the  fruit  and  produce  business 
with  Mr.  Frank  Evers,  but  two  years  later 
established  his  present  business  in  the  same 


line,  in  which  he  has  been  eminently  successful. 
He  is  one  of  the  three  largest  shippers  of  apples 
in  the  country  and  is  the  president  of  the 
National  Apple  Shippers'  Association.  To  his 
other  titles  has  been  added  that  of  "Apple 
King."  Mr.  Williamson  served  two  years  in  the 
City  Council  and  was  appointed  a  member  of  the 
board  of  education  to  succeed  the  late  Senator 
Wells.  He  has  held  the  office  of  president  of 
the  Quincy  Freight  Bureau  since  its  organiza- 
tion, was  president  of  the  Humane  Society^  for 
several  years  and  is  still  a  director  and  is  one  of 
the  trustees  of  Woodland  Orphan  Home.  Gov- 
ernor Tanner  appointed  him  one  of  the  Illinois 
commissioners  to  the  Nashville  Exposition.  A 
ready  and  brilliant  speaker  and  an  ideal  presid- 
ing officer.  Mr.  Williamson  is  in  demand  for 
public  occasions  and  has  graced  many  impor- 
tant gatherings  and  social  functions. 


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REPRESENTATIVE  MEN  AND  HOMES. 


JOSEPH  W.  EMERY. 


Mr.  Joseph  W.  Emery,  president  and  treasurer 
of  the  Channon-Emery  Stove  Company,  is  a  son 
of  the  Rev.  Dr.  S.  H.  Emery,  Sr.,  and  was  born 
at  Taunton,  Mass.,  November  10,  1850,  coming 
to  Quincy  with  his  parents  in  1855.  The  Rev. 
Dr.  Emery  was  pastor  of  the  Congregational 
church  here  from  1855  to  1869,  and  has  left  a 
deep  and  lasting  impress  on  the  community. 
A  man  of  broad  culture,  an  eloquent,  impressive 
speaker  and  a  successful  organizer,  the  church 
was  exceedingly  prosperous  under  his  ministra- 
tions. But  his  work  was  not  confined  to  his 
church  alone,  extending  to  every  movement  for 
good  among  all  the  people.  Shortly  after  the 
breaking  out  of  the  war,  extensive  army  hospit- 
als were  established  here,  hundreds  of  sick  and 
wounded  union  soldiers  being  brought  to  Quincy 
from  the  camps  and  battlefields  of  the  south. 
Dr.  Emery  was  not  only  active  in  promoting  and 
assisting  movements  for  the  relief  of  the  sol- 
diers at  the  front,  but  also  devoted  himself 
assiduously  to  hospital  work.  He  was  specially 
commissioned  hospital  chaplain,  ministering  to 
the  dying  and  officiating  at  the  burial  services 
of  nearly  every  one  of  the  brave  men  who  rest 
in  the  national  burial  ground  at  Woodland.  On 
many  occasions  he  assisted  in  carrying  the  sick 
and  wounded  from  the  steamboats  at  the  levee, 
his  kindly  heart  impelling  him  to  care  for  their 
physical  as  well  as  their  religious  welfare.  Dr. 
Emery  has  taken  a  deep  interest  in  historical 
matters.  The  Old  Colony  Historfcal  Society 
was  organized  in  his  study  at  Taunton  before  he 
came  to  Quincy,  and  for  twenty-five  years  he 
has  been  its  president.  He  has  been  a  member 
of  the  Massachusetts  legislature  and  was  also 
appointed  by  the  governor  of  Massachusetts  one 
of  the  three  Old  Colony  commissioners  to  locate 
and  preserve  buildings  and  sites  of  historic  in- 
terest in  the  state.  During  his  more  recent 
visits  to  his  sons  in  this  city,  Dr.  Emery  was 
instrumental  in  the  organization  of  the  Adams 
County  Historical  Society.  He  is  still  located 
at  Taunton,  pastor  emeritus  of  the  old  church 
which  he  left  nearly  fifty  years  ago  to  come  to 
Quincy.  Active  in  mind  and  body,  he  is  one  of 
the  leading  ministers  of  his  denomination,  a 
ripe  scholar  and  thinker. 

After  graduating  at  the  Quincy  High  School, 


Mr.  Joseph  W.  Emery  went  into  the  banking 
house  of  L.  &  C.  H.  Bull  and  later,  with  Mr.  E. 
J.  Parker,  succeeded  to  the  commercial  depart- 
ment of  the  business,  the  firm  being  E.  J. 
Parker  &  Co.  Afterwards  the  commercial  and 
savings  departments  were  consolidated  and  Mr. 
Emery  was  made  cashier.  To  this  important 
and  responsible  position,  this  being  one  of  the 
largest  private  banking  institutions  in  the  west, 
outside  of  the  larger  cities,  he  brought  rare 


business  ability  and  the  confidence  of  the  com- 
munity. In  1881,  Mr.  Emery,  with  the  late  Wil- 
liam V.  Channon,  organized  the  stove  manufac- 
turing business  of  Channon  &  Emery,  succeeded 
by  the  Channon-Emery  Stove  Company,  Mr. 
Emery  filling  the  office  of  vice-president.  Later 
he  became  president  and  treasurer  of  the  com- 
pany, which  offices  he  now  holds,  as  well  as  the 
general  direction  of  this  large  and  important 
business. 


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REPRESENTATIVE  MEN  AND  HOMES. 


ALEXANDER  SHOLL. 

Alexander  Mack,  a  maternal  ancestor  of  Cap- 
tain Sholl,  came  to  this  country  from  Germany 
in  1729  and  was  the  founder  of  the  Dunkard 
religion  in  America.  His  paternal  grandfather 
figured  prominently  in  revolutionary  times  ami 
the  captain  inherits  from  him  his  unswerving 
loyalty  and  patriotism.  His  father,  Jacob 
Sholl,  left  Pennsylvania  in  1833  to  locate  at 
Winchester,  Ohio,  where  Captain  Sholl  was 
born.  In  March,  1853,  the  family  removed  to 
Hancock  County,  where  the  father  conducted  a 
mercantile  business  for  many  years.  When  the 
war  broke  out  Captain  Sholl  was  given  a  posi- 
tion as  clerk  with  Colonel  Simpson  in  the  quar- 
termaster's department  at  a  salary  of  $150  per 
month.  Soon  realizing  that  the  country  needed 
fighting  men  he  resigned  his  lucrative  position 
to  enlist  as  a  private  in  Company  B,  118th  Illi- 
nois Volunteer  Infantry.  His  regiment  was  in 
the  advance  at  the  siege  of  Vicksburg  and  saw 
lots  of  hard  service  during  the  early  years  of 
the  rebellion.  He  earned  promotion  rapidly, 
being  elected  second  lieutenant  and  first  lieuten- 
ant of  his  company  and  in  1863  was  commis- 
sioned captain.  After  the  war  he  engaged  in 
the  hardware  business  at  Carthage.  In  1877 
Captain  Sholl  was  appointed  chief  clerk  of  the 
Southern  Illinois  penitentiary  at  Chester,  which 


responsible  position  he  held  until  1885,  when  he 
went  to  Minneapolis  to  engage  in  business. 
Four  years  later  he  returned  to  Carthage  and  in 
1893  came  to  Quincy  to  engage  in  the  furniture 
business.  He  is  vice-president  and  treasurer  of 
the  Cottrell-Sholl  Furniture  Company,  the  lead- 
ing concern  in  this  line  of  business  in  the  city. 
Few  men  who  have  come  to  Quincy  in  recent 
years  have  so  quickly  identified  themselves  with 
the  community.  Captain  Sholl  has  the  faculty 
of  making  and  retaining  friends  by  reason  of 
his  frank,  generous  nature  and  his  disposition 
to  assist  others.  He  has  a  wide  acquaintance 
throughout  the  state  and  with  public  men 
throughout  the  country. 

EDMUND  M.  BOTSFORD. 

Though  still  a  young  man  Mr.  Edmund  M. 
Botsford  has  held  a  prominent  place  among  the 
newspaper  publishers  of  Illinois  for  many  years. 
Born  at  Fishkill,  on  the  Hudson,  N.  Y.,  he  is  a 
son  of  the  Rev.  A.  P.  Botsford,  for  more  than 
sixty  years  one  of  the  most  eminent  and  schol- 
arly ministers  of  the  Presbyterian  church.  He 
graduated  at  Princeton  College  in  1874,  receiv- 
ing the  degree  of  A.  B.  and  was  awarded  the 
senior  prize  medal  in  his  class  of  one  hundred 


REPRESENTATIVE  MEN  AND  HOMES. 


for  the  best  essay.  While  his  education  had 
been  directed  towards  the  legal  profession  he 
early  manifested  a  natural  talent  for  journalism 
and  as  a  college  student  did  much  of  the  editor- 
ial writing  for  the  Port  Jervis  Gazette.  After 
leaving  college  he  taught  school  for  a  time  and 
studied  law  at  Rochester,  N.  Y.  In  1879  Mr. 
Botsford  located  at  Rockford,  111.,  and  after  con- 
tinuing his  law  studies  accepted  an  editorial 
position  on  the  Rockford  Register,  starting  the 
first  daily  newspaper  in  that  thriving  city.  He 
soon  took  an  interest  in  the  paper,  which  was  a 
prorounced  success  under  his  management.  Sep- 
tember 23,  1891,  he  became  one  of  the  proprie- 
tors of  the  Quincy  Daily  Herald,  of  which  he  has 
since  been  managing  editor.  Mr.  Botsford  has 
the  faculty  of  making  the  kind  of  newspaper  the 
people  want  and  under  his  direction  the  Herald 
has  become  one  of  the  leading,  papers  of  the 
state  and  a  financial  success  as  well.  A  ready 
and  forcible  writer,  with  an  unlimited  capacity 
for  work,  he  combines  to  an  unusual  degree  the 
qualities  that  make  up  the  live,  progressive 
journalist  of  to-day.  As  president  of  the  local 
board  of  the  Associated  Press,  the  telegraphic 
news  business  of  this  section  of  the  state  is 
under  his  direction.  He  was  married  August  31, 
1881,  to  Miss  Caroline  Butterworth,  daughter  of 
"Honest  Tom"  Butterworth,  of  Rockford,  a 
member  of  the  state  legislature  and  candidate 
for  state  treasurer.  They  have  one  son  and  one 
daughter. 

JAMES  H.  CLARK. 

Mr.  James  H.  Clark  was  born  in  Ogle  County, 
Illinois,  in  1846.  His  father,  the  late  James 
Clark,  who  died  April  8  of  the  present  year, 
lacked  but  a  few  months  of  being  100  years  old. 
For  many  years  he  was  the  oldest  resident  of 
Quincy  and  one  of  its  most  honored  citizens.  Up 
to  the  week  of  his  death  he  was  in  full  posses- 
sion of  all  his  faculties,  remarkably  well-pre- 
served, mentally  and  physically.  His  first  vote 
was  cast  for  James  Monroe  in  1820  and  he  was  a 
neighbor  and  personal  friend  of  General  Wil- 
liam Henry  Harrison,  sharing  with  the  early 
pioneers  of  Ohio  in  the  Indian  wars  and  the 
privations  of  the  development  of  the  great 
Buckeye  state.  He  also  enjoyed  the  distinction 
of  being  the  oldest  Mason  in  America,  if  not  in 
the  world,  having  become  a  member  of  the  lodge 
at  Sunbury,  Ohio,  in  1820.  Having  lived  to  see 


five  generations  gathered  about  him,  he  passed 
away  almost  in  full  vigor,  the  honored  head  of  a 
long  line  of  worthy  descendants. 

After  attending  Rock  River  Seminary  at 
Mount  Morris,  111.,  Mr.  James  H.  Clark  taught 
school  in  Ogle  County  for  a  short  time,  but  came 
to  Quincy  with  his  parents  in  1863,  working  in 
his  father's  grocery  store,  under  the  Occidental 
Hotel.  He  was  afterwards  shipping  clerk  for 
F.  W.  Jansen  &  Co.  and  then  bookkeeper  and 
salesman  for  Brown  Brothers.  In  1870  he  en- 
gaged in  the  bakery  and  confectionery  business 


and  a  year  later  the  present  firm  of  Clark  & 
Morgan  was  organized.  For  thirty  years  Mr. 
Clark  has  been  a  prominent  figure  in  commer- 
cial circles.  His  house  has  become  one  of  the 
leading  confectionery  and  bakery  establish- 
ments of  the  west  and  one  of  the  most  extensive 
dealers  in  foreign  fruits  and  nuts.  In  public 
affairs  he  has  always  manifested  a  lively  inter- 
est and  he  has  given  freely  of  his  time  and 
means  for  the  advancement  of  Quincy.  For 
many  years  Mr.  Clark  has  been  president  of  the 
board  of  trustees  of  the  Vermont  Street  Metho- 
dist Episcopal  Church  and  one  of  the  trustees 
and  most  earnest  promoters  of  Chaddock  Col- 
lege. 


REPRESENTATIVE  MEN  AND  HOMES. 


CHARLES  T.  DAZEY. 


It  is  a  source  of  universal  pride  to  the  people 
of  Quincy  that  among  its  many  distinguished 
citizens  should  be  numbered  one  of  the  most 
eminent  and  successful  dramatic  writers  of  the 
time— Mr.  Charles  T.  Dazey.  The  plays  of  this 
noted  author  are  delighting  immense  audiences 
in  Europe  as  well  as  in  America  and  his  name  is 
as  familiarly  known  abroad  as  it  is  in  his  own 
country.  "In  Old  Kentucky''  and  "The  War  of 
Wealth"  are  still  delighting  and  instructing 


audiences,  measured  only  by  the  capacity  of  the 
largest  theaters,  and  his  other  plays  have 
proven  equally  popular.  In  his  dramatic  and 
literary  work  Mr.  Dazey  is  conscientious  and 
painstaking  to  the  highest  degree.  A  close  and 
remarkably  successful  student  of  human  nature, 
dominated  by  the  highest  motives,  his  writings 
are  not  only  pure  and  wholesome,  but  appeal 
strongly  to  the  people,  touching  a  responsive 
chord  in  every  heart.  He  has  not  been  influ- 
enced by  the  constant  demands  of  great  actors 
and  successful  managers,  but  writes  with  care 
and  deliberation  and  everything  that  comes 
from  his  pen  is  characterized  by  the  same  com- 
pleteness and  elegance  of  finish.  Among,  the 


dramatic  writers  of  the  day  there  are  none  more 
eminent  or  successful  and  his  name  will  be  hon- 
ored in  future  years. 

Mr.  Dazey  was  born  in  the  town  of  Lima,  in 
this  county,  August  13,  1855.  He  is  a  son  of  the 
Hon.  Mitchell  Dazey,  for  a  long  term  of  years 
one  of  the  most  prominent  farmers  of  the 
county.  His  early  education  was  gained  in  the 
Quincy  schools  and  Johnson  College  and  he  then 
went  to  Lexington,  Ky.,  where  he  prepared  for 
Harvard  College,  graduating  at  Harvard  in  the 
class  of  1881  with  honors  and  receiving  the 
degree  of  A.  B.  The  honorary  degree  of  M.  A. 
was  afterwards  conferred  on  him  by  Illinois 
College.  After  graduating  at  Harvard  he  stud- 
ied law  at  Columbia  College,  but  close  applica- 
tion having  impaired  his  health  he  went  to 
Dakota,  where  he  managed  an  extensive  wheat 
farm  for  some  time.  When  his  health  was 
restored  he  gave  his  entire  attention  to  litera- 
ture. His  first  play  was  written  while  he  was  at 
Harvard  College,  a  comediette  entitled  "Rusti- 
cation," which  was  presented  at  the  Boston 
Museum  with  more  than  ordinary  success.  Mr. 
Dazey's  first  serious  play  was  "An  American 
King,"  presented  by  James  O'Neil  in  1882.  It 
was  so  successful  that  it  brought  many  commis- 
sions from  prominent  actors  and  at  once  estab- 
lished the  reputation  of  the  author.  "Erma,  the 
Elf,"  and  other  plays  for  Katie  Putnam  followed 
and  "For  a  Brother's  Life,"  presented  by  J.  M. 
Hill,  and  "Love  Finds  a  Way,"  written  later  for 
Katie  Putnam.  "In  Old  Kentucky,"  the  first 
play  to  give  Mr.  Dazey  an  international  reputa- 
tion, was  written  at  the  Newcomb  Hotel  in  the 
winter  of  1891-2.  It  is  now  on  its  seventh  season 
in  this  country,  is  being  presented  in  England 
and  Australia  and  is  to  be  given  in  Germany. 
Since  it  was  written  no  dramatic  production 
presented  has  drawn  larger  audiences  or  re- 
ceived more  universally  favorable  comment. 
"The  War  of  Wealth,"  which  followed  "In  Old 
Kentucky,"  has  been  presented  in  England,  is  to 
be  given  in  Australia  and  has  proven  equally 
popular.  "The  Tarrytown  Widow"  and  some 
minor  writings  for  the  Century  and  other  peri- 
odicals have  comprised  Mr.  Dazey's  more  recent 
work.  Mr.  Dazey  was  married  July  12,  1887,  to 
Miss  Lucy  H.  Harding,  and  they  have  one  son. 
In  the  fall  of  1896,  with  his  charming  and 
accomplished  wife  he  went  abroad  for  a  year, 
visiting  England,  France  and  Italy,  and  was 
everywhere  received  with  distinguished  honor. 


REPRESENTATIVE  MEN  AND  HOMES. 


JONATHAN 

Against  far  greater  than  ordinary  odds  the 
Hon.  Jonathan  Parkhurst  has  carved  out  suc- 
cess in  life  and  has  made  for  himself  a  promi- 
nent place  in  commercial  and  political  affairs. 
He  was  born  in  Dana,  Worcester  County,  Mas- 
sachusetts. When  he  was  very  young  his 
parents  located  at  Barre  Village  and  at  the  age 
of  eight  years  he  was  employed  in  a  cotton  fac- 
tory at  50  cents  per  week,  working  twelve  and 
one-half  hours  a  day.  The  second  six  months 


PARKHURST. 

the  spring  of  his  eighteenth  year  Mr.  Parkhurst 
left  home  and  went  to  Nashua,  N.  H.,  where  he 
attended  school,  splitting  palm,  leaves  morning 
and  evening  to  support  himself.  After  leaving 
school  he  made  unsuccessful  attempts  to  secure 
a  position  as  clerk  in  some  of  the  stores  of 
Nashua  and  Lowell.  Finally,  in  desperation,  he 
offered  to  work  six  months  for  a  dry  goods  mer- 
chant at  Nashua  for  the  price  of  his  board, 
$2. l2l/2  per  week,  and  the  offer  was  accepted, 


his  wages  were  increased  to  75  cents  per  week. 
At  the  end  of  three  years'  service  the  factory 
was  destroyed  by  fire  and  his  family  removed  to 
Munson,  North  Factory  Village,  where  he  was 
employed  two  years.  While  working  at  Barre 
one  of  the  first  strikes  that  ever  occurred  in  this 
country  took  place,  now  more  than  fifty  years 
ago.  The  weavers  struck  against  a  reduction  in 
wages,  but  after  being  out  seven  days  they  were 
notified  to  resume  their  places  within  three 
days,  under  penalty  of  being 'blacklisted.  They 
went  back  to  work,  as  there  were  no  unions  at 
that  time.  His  time  was  next  divided  between 
working  on  a  small  farm,  which  his  father  had 
taken,  and  splitting  palm  leaves  for  making 
palm-leaf  hats,  then  worn  by  men  and  boys.  In 


his  cash  capital  at  that  time  being  $5.  He  re- 
mained in  the  store  two  years,  when  he  secured 
employment  in  a  clothing  store.  At  the  end  of 
three  years  he  bought  a  half  Interest  in  the 
business  and  the  year  following  became  the  sole 
proprietor,  continuing  in  the  clothing  business 
up  to  the  present  time.  While  in  Nashua  he 
took  an  active  part  in  public  affairs,  being  twice 
elected  to  the  common  council  and  the  second 
term  being  elected  president  of  the  board.  He 
was  twice  elected  to  the  New  Hampshire  legisla- 
ture, the  Hon.  William  E.  Chandler,  now  United 
States  Senator,  being  speaker  of  the  house  dur- 
ing his  second  term.  Then  he  was  elected  a 
member  of  the  board  of  aldermen  and  one  of 
the  members  of  the  select  men  of  the  ward, 


REPRESENTATIVE  MEN  AND  HOMES. 


being  chosen  chairman  of  that,  body.  Mr.  Park- 
hurst  came  to  Quincy  in  Ocfooer,  1866,  and  en- 
gaged in  the  clothing  business  on  Maine  street. 
Before  very  many  years  he  had  become  one  of 
the  leading  clothing  merchants  of  this  section, 
had  built  and  occupied  his  present  elegant  stone 
front  business  block  on  Fifth  street  and  had 
acquired  a  handsome  property,  to  which  he  is 
constantly  adding.  He  has  been  frequently 
honored  with  positions  of  trust  and  responsibil- 
ity, twice  elected  to  the  board  of  supervisors, 
has  served  four  years  as  alderman,  has  been 
twice  elected  mayor — the  second  time  without 
opposition — and  has  been  a  member  of  the  Illi- 
nois legislature.  While  he  was  alderman  he 
was  largely  instrumental  in  bringing  about  im- 
portant legislation.  As  chairman  of  the  light 
committee  he  advocated  a  reduction  in  the 
expense  of  lighting  the  city  and  at  the  same 
time  the  extension  of  the  lighting  district. 
Failing  to  secure  any  material  concessions  from 
the  gas  company,  a  contract  was  made  with  the 
American  Electric  Light  Company,  then  just 
commencing  business  here,  for  125  arc  lights  at 
$135  each  per  year,  at  that  time  the  lowest  price 
paid  in  the  east  or  west.  Since  then  the  lights 
have  been  increased  in  number  and  reduced  in 
price  until  Quincy  is  now  one  of  the  best  lighted 
cities  in  the  entire  country.  It  was  through  his 
influence  that  the  unsightly  and  antiquated 
wooden  awnings  were  removed  in  the  business 
sections  of  the  city,  and  cattle  and  hogs  were 
prevented  from  running  at  large.  He  also  de- 
voted much  time  and  attention  to  the  water 
works  question,  advocating  municipal  owner- 
ship of  the  water  system.  When  Mr.  Parkhurst 
went  into  the  mayor's  office  he  was  confronted 
by  a  desperate  condition  of  aHairs.  The  city 
had  failed  to  pay  interest  on  its  indebtedness, 
then  nearly  $2,000,000,  mandamus  suits  were 
piling  up  in  the  United  States  courts,  bonds  to 
the  amount  of  $150,000  had  to  be  refunded,  a 
large  floating  indebtedness  provided  for  and 
the  credit  of  the  city  was  at  the  lowest  ebb. 
Quincy  six  per  cent  bonds  were  selling  on  the 
market  for  93  and  95  cents.  His  first  efforts 
were  to  assure  the  creditors  of  the  city  that  they 
would  get  their  money,  dollar  for  dollar,  and  to 
stop  the  mandamus  proceedings,  thereby  cutting 
off  heavy  court  costs.  To  accomplish  this  he 
advanced  his  personal  credit,  pledging  himself 
for  a  very  considerable  amount.  During  his  first 
term  as  mayor  he  paid  off  $43,000  in  floating  and 
past  due  indebtedness,  besides  $18,000  in  past 
due  interest  oil  M.  and  M.  bonds.  That  year 
$34,000  was  spent  on  the  streets  and  every  de- 
partment of  the  city  government  was  fully 


maintained.  When  it  came  to  refunding  the 
bonds,  the  opinion  was  general  that  a  4  or  4% 
per  cent  bond  could  not  be  sold.  Mr.  Parkhurst 
thought  differently  and  the  interest  rate  was 
fixed  at  4y2  per  cent.  In  August  he  went  to  the 
eastern  money  markets,  but  received  no  en- 
couragement whatever,  one  of  the  leading 
eastern  financiers  informing  him  that  what 
Quincy  most  needed  was  a  guarlian.  But  the 
mayor  was  not  discouraged.  On  his  return  home 
he  called  together  the  leading  financial  men  of 
the  city,  but  they  failed  to  mature  a  plan  of 
action,  and  the  mayor  devoted  his  time  during 
the  fall  and  winter  endeavoring  to  re-establish 
the  credit  of  the  city  in  the  hope  of  convincing 
the  outside  world  that  every  obligation  of  the 
city  would  be  promptly  paid,  when  due,  and  all 
interest  payments  met.  An  annual  sinking  fund 
of  $25,000  was  created.  When  the  bids  for  tne 
bonds  were  opened  in  the  spring,  to  the  surprise 
of  the  general  public,  an  offer  was  made  to  take 
the  entire  issue  at  par  with  a  commission  of 
only  2%  per  cent.  During  his  secor.d  term  Mayor 
Parkhurst  devoted  his  attention  to  keeping 
down  public  expenditures  and  meeting  pay- 
ments on  the  balance  of  the  debt  funding  bonds 
and  other  past  due  obligations.  Many  manda- 
mus suits  were  threatened,  but  not  one  was 
brought,  as  he  advanced  his  personal  credit  to 
the  amount  of  several  thousand  dollars  and  pro- 
vided for  the  payment  of  every  obligation  of 
the  city.  In  the  two  years  he  paid  over  $80,000 
in  past  due  obligations  and  left  the  city  in  excel- 
lent financial  condition.  The  present  magnifi- 
cent system  of  public  improvements  was  inaug- 
urated during  Mayor  Parkhurst's  second  term, 
the  first  brick  street  paving  being  laid  on  the 
rorth  and  east  sides  of  Washington  Park  and 
the  first  sewer  building  under  Article  IX.  being 
the  trunk  sewer  from  the  foot  of  Delaware 
street  to  the  river.  The  far-reaching  impor- 
tance of  his  services  for  Quincy,  as  alderman 
and  mayor,  cannot  be  overestimated. 

Mr.  Parkhurst  was  a  member  of  the  thirty- 
seventh  general  assembly,  taking  part  in  the 
memorable  senatorial  contest  and  being  num- 
bered with  the  famous  101  who  brought  aoout 
the  election  of  General  John  M.  Palmer  to  the 
United  States  senate.  He  served  on  several  im- 
portant committees  in  the  house,  including  the 
Soldiers'  Home  committee.  A  much  larger  ap- 
propriation was  needed  for  the  Home  than  had 
previously  been  made,  but  the  estimate  of 
Superintendent  Rowland  was  cut  down  $35,000 
by  the  appropriations  committee.  Mr.  Park- 
hurst had  always  taken  a  deep  interest  in  the 


REPRESENTATIVE  MEN  AND  HOMES. 


Home  and  at  once  led  the  fight  in  the  House  to 
secure  the  increased  appropriation.  He  was 
limited  to  a  five-minute  speech,  but  so  well  did 
he  improve  his  time  and  so  clearly  and  forcibly 
did  he  present  his  case  that  the  house  voted  the 
full  amount  asked  for,  this  being  one  of  the 
notable  victories  of  the  session. 

The  Soldiers'  Home  was  started  when  Mr. 
Parkhurst  was  mayor  and  he  gave  freely  of  his 
time  and  means  to  promoting  the  interests  of 
this  grand  institution.  In  the  summer  of  1887 
he  presented  the  Home  a  very  large  United 
States  garrison  flag.  With  the  late  Colonel 
Berry  he  drove  out  to  the  grounds  and  modestly 
made  the  presentation  to  General  Lippincott 
and  the  board  of  trustees.  The  beautiful  new 
flag  was  first  floated  from  the  headquarters 
building  July  Fourth  of  that  year  and  for  many 
years  was  a  silent  reminder  of  the  friendship  of 
the  donor.  The  trustees  of  the  Home,  at  their 
meeting,  July  1,  188Y,  passed  a  vote  of  thanks 
to  Mayor  Parkhurst  for  his  timely  gift,  which 
action  is  a  part  of  the  records  of  the  institution. 

Mr.  Parkhurst  during  recent  years  has  de- 
voted considerable  time  to  travel  and  has  visited 
nearly  all  important  points  in  this  country  and 
Mexico.  While  he  has  large  and  important 
business  interests  he  finds  ample  time  for  all 
matters  affecting  the  general  welfare  and  is  one 
of  Quincy's  most  public-spirited,  substantial 
citizens. 

ANTONE  BINKERT. 

Mr.  Antone  Binkert  is  one  of  the  oldest  resi- 
dents of  Quincy,  coming  here  with  his  parents 
from  Germany  in  March,  1837,  when  he  was 
less  than  a  year  old.  When  bis  father  reached 
this  city  his  capital  consisted  of  95  cents,  but 
he  was  of  sturdy  stock  and  quickly  secured 
work.  Soon  after  he  came  here  he  was  em- 
ployed in  opening  Broadway  from  the  river,  this 
work  being  done  for  a  prospective  railroad.  He 
was  afterwards  employed  for  about  twenty 
years  by  Joel  Rice  in  his  wholesale  iron  and 
grocery  house,  but  later  engaged  in  merchandis- 
ing for  himself,  continuing  in  business  until 
shortly  before  his  death  in  1872.  When  old 
enough  to  work,  Mr.  Antone  Binkert  learned  the 
trade  of  carriage  maker  in  the  shop  of  Mr. 
Weatherwax,  which  afterward  changed  hands 
and  was  finally  bought  by  E.  M.  Miller,  becom- 
ing the  foundation  for  his  present  factory.  He 
then  spent  three  years  on  the  plains,  during  the 
gold  excitement,  mining  in  Colorado  during  the 
summer.  In  localities  where  he  prospected  in 
the  early  days  some  of  the  richest  mines  in  Col- 


orado have  since  been  discovered.  When  the 
war  broke  out  he  spent  three  years  in  the  army 
and  then  returned  to  Quincy  and  engaged  in 
merchandising,  continuing  in  this  business 
until  1877.  Mr.  Binkert  was  elected  to  the  City 
Council  in  1872,  but  resigned  in  the  fall  of  the 
following  year  to  accept  the  office  of  city  collec- 
tor, in  which  there  was  a  vacancy.  In  1873  he  was 
elected  collector  for  a  full  term.  In  1877  he  was 
elected  county  treasurer  and  re-elected  in  1879, 


holding  over  until  1882  on  account  of  a  change 
in  the  law  governing  that  office.  On  leaving  the 
treasurer's  office  the  real  estate,  loan  and  insur- 
ance firm  of  Binkert  &  Cruttenden  was  estab- 
lished, which  was  continued  with  uninterrupted 
success  until  April,  1897,  when  Mr.  Cruttenden 
retired  and  Mr.  George  A.  Binkert  became  asso- 
ciated with  his  father  under  the  firm  name  of 
A.  Binkert  &  Son.  Mr.  Binkert  was  a  member 
of  the  City  Council  from  1897  to  1899,  represent- 
ing the  Fourth  Ward.  During  his  long  residence 
in  Quincy  he  has  taken  prominent  part  in  the 
development  of  the  city.  He  was  interested  in 
platting  Park  Place,  one  of  the  finest  residence 
sections  of  Quincy,  and  also  in  other  notable 
residence  additions.  He  was  also  one  of  the 
prime  movers  in  the  building  of  the  Newcomb 
Hotel  and  the  Empire  Theater,  and  has  been 
identified  with  many  other  important  public 
enterprises. 


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REPRESENTATIVE  MEN  AND  HOMES. 


THEODORE  .C.  POLING. 


Mr.  Poling  has  established  in  Quincy  a  busi- 
ness that  is  distinctively  his  own  and  in  which  he 
has  made  a  record  of  remarkable  success.  It  is 
a  business  in  which  he  pioneered  his  own  way, 
but  which  has  grown  to  very  large  proportions. 
Mr.  Poling  was  born  in  Middletown,  N.  J.,  Jan- 
uary 10,  1840.  After  graduating  in  the  common 
schools  he  attended  Knox  College  at  Galesburg 
and  left  college  to  enlist  in  the  137th  regiment 
in  the  war  of  the  rebellion,  also  serving  in  the 


interest.  This  exceptional  record,  in  itself  a 
guarantee  of  the  greatest  security,  has  not  been 
a  matter  of  accident.  It  has  been  brought  about 
by  the  great  degree  of  care  which  Mr.  Poling 
exercises  in  his  business.  He  looks  up  all  titles 
and  inspects  every  piece  of  property  on  which  a 
loan  is  to  be  made  and  by  assuring  himself  of 
every  condition  affecting  the  loan  protects  all  of 
his  patrons.  Mr.  Poling  has  served  in  the  direc- 
tory of  the  Gas  Light  and  Coke  Company  and 


73rd  regiment.  When  he  came  out  of  the  army 
he  taught  school  at  Payson  for  a  time  and 
studied  law.  In  1870  he  came  to  this  city  and  the 
law  firm  of  Davis  &  Poling  was  organized.  In 
1885  this  firm  was  dissolved  and  Mr.  Poling 
established  his  present  savings  and  loan  office 
and  mortgage  banking  business.  To  this  he  has 
since  devoted  his  undivided  attention.  In  the 
thousands  of  loans  which  he  has  placed  he  has 
never  had  a  client  who  has  been  obliged  to  take 
a  piece  of  property  on  a  loan  of  his  making  and 
not  one  of  his  customers  has  lost  a  dollar  in 


the  Free  Public  Library  and  is  a  director  and 
the  treasurer  of  the  Graceland  Cemetery  Asso- 
ciation. He  is  a  director  in  the  Anna  Brown 
Home  for  the  Aged  and  one  of  the  chief  organ- 
izers of  this  grand  institution  and  drew  the  will 
by  means  of  which  it  was  founded.  He  is  also 
one  of  the  trustees  of  Blessing  Hospital.  Mr. 
Poling  is  a  large  owner  of  real  estate  in  Quincy, 
being  interested  in  several  of  the  more  impor- 
tant improvements  projected  during  recent 
years.  His  beautiful  home  in  Lawndale  is  one 
of  the  notable  residences  of  the  city. 


REPRESENTATIVE  MEN  AND  HOMES. 


J.  HERMAN  HEIDBREDER. 

By  his  own  unaided  efforts  and  under  most 
adverse  circumstances  in  early  life,  Mr.  J.  Her- 
man Heidbreder,  cashier  of  the  State  Street 
Bank,  has  attained  more  than  ordinary  success. 
He  was  born  in  Germany,  coming  to  Quincy 
with  his  parents  in  1851.  His  father,  mother 
and  three  brothers  died  within  nine  months 
after  his  arrival  here,  and  Herman,  then  a  boy, 
was  thrown  on  his  own  resources.  Trouble  and 
adversity  served  to  speedily  develop  the  sterling 
qualities  that  have  characterized  his  life.  He 
secured  a  position  with  C.  H.  Bastert,  on  Ninth 
and  State  streets,  and  a  year  later  was  employed 
by  Mr.  Frank  H.  Kehlenbrink  in  his  dry  goods 
and  grocery  store.  In  1863  Mr.  Kehlenbrink's 
health  failed  and  so  faithful  and  efficient  had 
the  young  clerk  proven  that  the  rapidly  growing 
business  was  turned  over  to  him.  Mr.  Heid- 
breder continued  the  business  for  twenty-two 
years,  increasing  the  trade  largely  and  building 
up  an  important  patronage.  In  1885  he  engaged 
in  the  real  estate  business  at  Eighth  and  State 
streets  and  five  years  later,  with  other  promi- 
nent business  men,  started  the  State  Street 
Bank,  taking  the  responsible  position  of  cashier. 
The  bank  has  been  successful  from  the  start, 
Mr.  Heidbreder  having  a  very  wide  acquaintance 
throughout  the  city  and  county  and  command- 
ing the  highest  confidence  of  the  people  gener- 


ally. He  has  always  manifested  a  deep  interest 
in  the  welfare  of  the  young  men  and  is  one  of 
the  founders  and  directors  of  the  Young  Men's 
Christian  Association,  the  beautiful  new  build- 
ing on  Ninth  and  State  streets  being  a  monu- 
ment to  the  generous  and  public  spirited  men 
who  made  it  possible.  He  is  also  one  of  the 
directors  of  the  public  library. 

JOHN  W.  REED. 

Mr.  John  W.  Reed,  the  well-known  druggist  of 
Quincy,  was  born  on  a  farm  in  Warren  County, 
Illinois,  November  19,  1859.  His  father,  Mr.  J. 
D.  Reed,  is  a  native  of  Knox  County  and  moved 
to  Warren  after  his  marriage.  Early  in  the  war 
his  father  enlisted  in  the  Seventh  Illinois  Cav- 
alry, commanded  by  Colonel  Edward  Prince, 
and  served  four  years  and  three  months,  partici- 
pating in  all  of  the  memorable  battles  and 
engagements  in  which  that  noted  command  took 
part.  For  a  time  he  was  a  prisoner  of  war  in 
Libby  prison,  but  had  the  good  fortune  to  be 
exchanged  the  day  before  a  large  number  of 
union  soldiers  were  transferred  to  Anderson- 
ville,  and  returned  to  his  command.  During  his 
early  life  Mr.  J.  W.  Reed  was  employed  on  the 
home  farm.  He  received  a  thorough  education, 
and  in  1878,  desiring  a  more  active  life,  he 


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REPRESENTATIVE  MEN  AND  HOMES. 


joined  the  engineering  corps  of  the  Santa  Fe 
Railway,  remaining  with  the  corps  in  New  and 
Old  Mexico  for  three  years.  He  then  purchased 
a  drug  store  at  Nickerson,  Kan.,  and  from  there 
engaged  in  the  drug  business  at  Memphis,  Tenn. 
In  March,  1893,  he  came  to  Quincy  and  pur- 
chased the  Newcomb  Pharmacy.  In  this  busi- 
ness he  has  been  remarkably  successful,  build- 
ing up  one  of  the  most  important  drug  stores  in 
the  city.  Early  this  year  his  brothers,  L.  C.  and 
F.  G.  Reed,  became  associated  with  him  and  a 
second  place  of  business,  the  elegant  drug  store 
at  Fifth  and  Hampshire  streets,  one  of  the 
handsomest  in  the  west,  was  opened.  Mr.  Reed 
is  of  an  active  temperament,  throwing  his  great 
energy  into  everything  he  undertakes,  and  is 
well  calculated  to  succeed.  He  is  worshipful 
master  of  Lambert  Masonic  lodge  and  in 
Masonic  circles,  as  well  as  in  business,  is  uni- 
versally popular. 

EDWARD  SOHM. 

In  the  large  and  more  important  commercial 
and  financial  interests  of  Quincy  few  men 
occupy  a  more  commanding  position  than  Mr. 
Edward  Sohm.  While  he  has  met  with  more 
than  the  ordinary  degrees  of  prosperity  his  suc- 
cess is  his  own,  and  he  has  made  for  himself  a 
name  in  the  commercial  world,  which  is  as 
highly  honored  in  the  business  centers  of  the 
east  as  it  is  here  at  home.  Mr.  Sohm  was  born 
at  the  old  family  homestead  on  Third  and  York 
streets,  in  this  city,  October  2,  1845.  His  hon- 
ored mother,  who  is  still  living,  is  one  of  the 
oldest  residents  of  Quincy,  having  come  here  in 
1834,  and  his  father,  Mr.  Pantaleon  Sohm, 
located  in  this  city  six  years  later.  He  passed 
away  in  1885,  leaving  a  good  name  and  the 
record  of  a  well-spent  life.  Edward  was  pre- 
pared for  college  under  private  tutors,  receiving 
a  careful  and  comprehensive  education.  When 
nineteen  years  of  age  he  taught  German  for  a 
time  and  then  took  charge  of  St.  Boniface 
school.  Deciding  to  engage  in  commercial  busi- 
ness he  resigned  this  position  and  accepted  a 
place  in  the  queensware  house  of  Mr.  Henry 
Ridder  in  1865.  Three  years  later  he  was 
admitted  to  partnership,  continuing  a  member 
of  the  firm  of  H.  Ridder  &  Co.  until  January  1, 
1884.  Then  the  firm  of  Sohm,  Ricker  &  Weisen- 
horn  was  organized,  doing  business  for  ten 


years  where  Hill's  carpet  store  is  now  located. 
The  business  prospered  from  the  first  and  in 
1894  the  firm  occupied  their  present  extensive 
queensware  house,  built  expressly  for  them, 
and  one  of  the  largest  and  finest  in  the  entire 
country.  Their  wholesale  trade  reaches  into  all 
the  territory  tributary  to  Quincy,  this  house 
being  one  of  the  most  important  in  their  line  in 
the  west.  Mr.  Sohm  was  one  of  the  first  direc- 
tors of  the  Ricker  National  Bank  and  was  presi- 


dent from  1884  to  1897,  when  he  exchanged 
offices  with  Mr.  H.  F.  J.  Ricker,  being  now  vice- 
president.  He  was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the 
Quincy  Freight  Bureau  and  its  treasurer,  treas- 
urer of  the  Fireman's  Benevolent  Institution 
and  president  of  the  Germania  Printing  Com- 
pany. In  every  movement  of  public  importance 
he  is  one  of  the  most  effective  workers  and  most 
valued  advisors.  Though  repeatedly  tendered 
prominent  public  offices  he  has  steadfastly 
refused,  devoting  himself  entirely  to  business 
and  to  the  upbuilding  of  his  native  city.  To  the 
welfare  of  Quincy  he  has  always  contributed 
more  than  his  full  share.  Mr.  Sohm  was  mar- 
ried in  1868  to  Miss  Mary  Barbara  Helmer  and 
they  have  three  sons  and  two  daughters. 


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REPRESENTATIVE  MEN  AND  HOMES. 


JESSE  E. 

Very  few  men  in  this  locality  have  had  more 
to  do  with  railroad  building  and  development  in 
this  section  than  Mr.  Jesse  E.  Weems.  He  was 
born  on  a  farm  in  Virginia,  August  21,  1831,  and 
comes  of  an  old  and  eminent  family.  His  grand- 
father, Mason  Lock  Weems,  was  the  pastor  of 
the  church  at  Mount  Vernon,  which  President 
George  Washington  attended,  and  who  wrote 
the  original  life  of  Washington,  the  first  to 
record  the  story  of  the  cherry  tree.  When  eigh- 


WEEMS. 

Quincy  to  Palmyra.  Stephen  Holmes  was  the 
first  president  and  the  road  was  afterwards  sold 
to  officials  of  the  Wabash  and  later  became  a 
part  of  the  Hannibal  &  St.  Joseph  Railway.  Mr. 
Weems  was  county  surveyor  of  Hancock 
County  for  two  years,  and  afterwards  built  the 
Illinois  &  Southern  Iowa  Railway,  from  Clayton 
to  Keokuk,  which  was  later  consolidated  with 
the  Wabash  Railway.  In  1865  he  accepted  a 
position  as  passenger  conductor  on  the  Wabash, 


teen  years  of  age,  Mr.  Jesse  E.  Weems  went  to 
Washington  to  complete  his  education  as  an 
engineer.  He  then  went  out  with  the  boundary 
line  commission  which  located  the  division  be- 
tween the  United  States  and  Mexico,  this  being 
his  first  engineering  work.  In  1853  he  came 
west  and  located  at  Augusta,  in  Hancock 
County,  being  engaged  as  engineer  on  the 
Northern  Cross  Railroad,  of  which  the  late 
Nehemiah  Bushnell  was  president.  He  was 
employed  on  what  was  called  the  middle  divis- 
ion, between  Camp  Point  and  Macomb.  In  1859 
he  built  the  Quincy  &  Palmyra  road,  from  West 


which  he  held  until  1893.  Few  men  on  the 
entire  system  were  better  known  and  none  were 
more  popular  with  the  traveling  public  or  more 
highly  regarded  by  the  officials.  After  resign- 
ing his  railroad  position,  he  engaged  in  the  ice- 
making  business  in  Texas,  but  in  1894  returned 
to  Quincy  to  take  the  active  management  of  the 
Pure  Ice  and  Cold  Storage  Company  of  this  city, 
in  which  his  two  sons  are  interested  with  him. 
Mr.  Weems  carries  his  honors  with  the  greatest 
degree  of  modesty  and  few  outside  the  circle  of 
his  older  and  most  intimate  friends  know  that 
he  figured  so  prominently  in  the  early  develop- 
ment of  this  section. 


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REPRESENTATIVE  MEN  AND  HOMES. 


MILTON  K.  AND  FRANK  H.  WEEMS. 


Though  among  the  younger  of  the  representa- 
tive business  men  of  Quincy,  Messrs.  Milton  K. 
and  Frank  H.  Weems  are  among  the  most  prom- 
inent and  successful.  In  less  than  twenty  years 
they  have  built  up  the  most  important  laundry 
business  in  the  west  and  an  extensive  artificial 
ice  and  cold  storage  industry.  They  are  the  sons 
of  Mr.  Jesse  E.  Weems.  Mr.  Milton  K.  Weems 
was  born  on  a  farm  near  Augusta,  in  Hancock 
County,  December  1,  1859,  and  came  to  Quincy 


in  June,  1870.  His  first  work  as  a  boy  was  car- 
rying newspapers.  In  September,  1877,  he  went 
into  the  banking  house  of  L.  &  C.  H.  Bull, 
remaining  there  nearly  two  years,  when  he 
decided  to  go  into  the  laundry  business.  Mr. 
Frank  H.  Weems  was  born  in  Keokuk,  May  21, 
1862,  and  came  to  Quincy  in  June,  1870.  Like 
his  brother,  he  was  a  newspaper  carrier  for  a 
time  and  then  took  a  position  on  Swope's  farm, 
leaving  the  farm  to  join  in  the  laundry  venture. 
The  wheels  of  the  laundry  were  started  for  the 
first  time  July  4,  1879,  in  the  small  building  on 
Jersey  street,  east  of  Seventh.  From  a  very 
modest  beginning,  with  but  little  capital,  the 
business  grew  rapidly  and  in  1888  they  pur- 
chased the  property  and  built  the  present  build- 
ing on  Fifth  and  Jersey  streets,  one  of  the 
largest  and  most  completely  equipped  laundry 
establishments  in  the  entire  country.  Seven 


years  ago  extensive  dye  works  were  added  to  the 
laundry  business.  In  1894  the  Pure  Ice  Com- 
pany was  started,  suitable  buildings  being  built 
on  South  Front  street,  a  number  of  artesian 
wells  being  sunk  to  insure  an  abundant  supply 
of  pure  water.  This  industry  grew  as  rapidly 
as  the  laundry  business.  New  buildings  have 
been  added,  including  large  cold  storage  ware- 
houses, and  the  plant  now  has  a  capacity  for 
making  thirty-five  tons  of  ice  per  day  and  stor- 


age capacity  for  30,000  barrels.  Side  tracks  lead 
direct  to  the  buildings.  Mr.  Milton  K.  Weems 
is  president  of  the  Weems  Laundry  Company, 
of  Quincy  and  Springfield,  111.,  a  large  laundry 
having  been  established  in  the  latter  city,  and 
he  is  treasurer  of  the  Pure  Ice  Company.  Mr. 
Frank  H.  Weems  is  president  of  the  Pure  Ice 
Company  and  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the 
Weems  Laundry  Company.  Together  the  two 
brothers  own  the  extensive  dye  works.  Last 
fall  the  coal  business  was  also  taken  up  and  has 
proven  most  successful.  Starting  in  business 
before  they  had  attained  their  majority,  the 
remarkable  success  of  Messrs.  Milton  and  Frank 
Weems  has  not  been  a  matter  of  accident.  They 
have  earned  their  good  fortune  by  reason  of 
those  qualities  from  which  successful  men  are 
made,  and  they  are  universally  respected  by  rea- 
son of  their  sterling  worth. 


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REPRESENTATIVE  MEN  AND  HOMES. 


J.  W.  CASSIDY. 

The  development  of  the -business  of  the  Cas- 
sidy Commission  Company,  of  which  Mr.  J.  W. 
Cassidy  is  the  president  and  the  active  manager, 
has  been  phenomenal.  In  less  than  five  years 
he  has  built  up  the  largest  business  of  this  kind 
in  the  United  States,  outside  of  the  leading 
commercial  centers,  an  enterprise  creditable 
alike  to  Quincy  and  to  the  man  who  has  created 
it.  Mr.  Cassidy  was  born  on  a  farm  in  Kanka- 
kee  County,  Illinois,  January  20,  1865,  his 
father  being  a  native  of  New  York.  He  enjoyed 
the  advantages  of  a  common  school  education 
and  when  nineteen  years  old  went  into  the  nur- 
sery business  as  a  salesman  on  the  road.  In 
this  he  was  so  successful  that  in  three  years  he 
purchased  an  interest  in  the  business,  which  he 
carried  on  until  he  came  to  Quincy  in  1894  to 
embark  in  the  commission  business.  At  the 
outset  the  offices  of  the  company  were  equipped 
with  direct  private  wires  to  the  grain,  provision 
and  stock  exchanges  of  Chicago,  St.  Louis  and 
New  York,  the  same  facilities  being  afforded 
patrons  as  are  provided  in  the  larger  cities.  The 
business  was  successful  from  the  start.  As  the 
patronage  increased  branch  offices  were  estab- 
lished in  a  number  of  other  cities  and  at  the 
opening  of  the  present  year  the  Cassidy  Com- 
mission Company  was  incorporated  with  a 
capital  of  $100,000,  some  of  the  leading  business 


men  of  the  city  becoming  interested  in  the  com- 
pany. Mr.  Cassidy  is  a  member  of  the  Chicago 
Board  of  Trade  and  the  St.  Louis  Merchants' 
Exchange.  His  home  in  Quincy,  on  Locust 
Boulevard,  is  one  of  the  most  elegant  and  spa- 
cious suburban  homes  in  Central  Illinois.  A 
public-spirited  and  progressive  business  man, 
he  has  taken  an  active  interest  in  the  develop- 
ment of  the  park  and  boulevard  system  and  is  a 
liberal  supporter  of  all  worthy  charitable  and 
public  enterprises. 

CHARLES  C.  OSBORN. 

Mr.  Charles  C.  Osborn,  president  of  the  Quincy 
Coal  Company,  was  born  in  Waverly,  Ohio,  Jan- 
uary 19,  1842,  and  came  here  with  his  parents  in 
1846.  His  father,  the  late  H.  S.  Osborn,  was  a 
member  of  the  firm  of  Wheeler,  Osborn  &  Co., 
which  operated  the  old  Eagle  Mills  at  Front  and 
Broadway,  and  later  the  extensive  plant  of  the 
same  came  on  Broadway  and  Second  street.  He 
was  also  president  of  the  Quincy  Coal  Company, 
a  director  in  the  gas  company  and  the  First 
National  Bank.  For  a  long  term  of  years  he 
was  one  of  the  most  prominent  business  men  of 
the  city,  active  in  every  public  enterprise  and 
his  contributions  to  worthy  charitable  causes 
were  most  liberal.  When  failing  health  com- 


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pelled  him  to  retire  from  active  business  he 
located  at  San  Diego,  Cal.,  where  he  died  No- 
vember 24,  1895.  His  son  Charles  learned  the 
milling  business  in  the  old  Eagle  Mills  and  con- 
tinued in  this  business  until  he  identified  him- 
self with  the  Quincy  Coal  Company  in  1875  and 
finally  succeeding  his  father  as  president.  He 
is  also  interested  in  the  coal  mines  at  Lewis- 
town  and  Farmington.  He  is  a  worthy  succes- 
sor of  an  old  and  honored  citizen.  Mr.  Osborn 
has  been  for  many  years  a  trustee  of  the  Ver- 
mont Street  M.  E.  Church  and  one  of  its  most 
active  and  liberal  supporters. 

GEORGE  C.  PARKHURST. 

Though  one  of  the  younger  of  the  representa- 
tive business  men  of  Quincy,  Mr.  George  C. 
Parkhurst  enjoys  the  distinction  of  having  held 
commissions  from  four  of  the  governors  of  Illi- 
nois. His  first  commission  was  issued  by  Gov- 
ernor Oglesby  as  second  lieutenant  of  Company 
D,  Illinois  National  Guard,  and  his  final  promo- 
tion was  to  the  position  of  colonel  on  the  staff 
of  Governor  Altgeld.  In  early  life  he  developed 
a  liking  for  military  affairs  and  unusual  ability 
as  an  organizer  and  commander.  After  com- 
pleting a  comprehensive  common  school  educa- 
tion he  attended  the  military  academy  at 
Orchard  Lake,  Mich.,  acquitting  himself  with 
honors  in  that  noted  school.  On  returning  to 
Quincy  he  enlisted  as  a  private  in  Company  D, 
but  within  two  weeks  after  enlisting  he  was 
appointed  sergeant.  Other  promotions  followed 
until  he  was  commissioned  first  lieutenant, 
which  office  he  resigned  when  he  engaged  in 
business  in  the  east.  In  1893  he  was  appointed 
a  member  of  Governor  Altgeld's  staff,  and  com- 
missioned colonel,  serving  as  secretary  and 
treasurer  of  the  staff  organization.  With  Gov- 
ernor Altgeld  he  participated  in  all  of  the  nota- 
ble functions  in  Chicago  during  the  World's 
Columbian  Exposition,  the  dedication  of  the 
soldiers'  monuments  at  Chattanooga,  the  laying 
of  the  corner  stones  of  state  institutions  at 
Peoria,  Charleston  and  Rock  Island  and  also 
served  during  each  of  the  state  encampments  at 
Springfield.  In  his  younger  days  he  was  drum 
major  of  the  first  democratic  drum  corps,  an 


organization  that  became  famous  throughout 
the  west  for  its  elegant  and  striking  uniform,  its 
wonderful  drill  and  its  stirring  martial  music. 

Nearly  all  of  his  business  life  Mr.  Parkhurst 
has  been  identified  with  the  extensive  clothing 
house  of  Bis  father,  the  Hon.  Jonathan  Park- 
hurst. In  1890  he  went  to  Springfield,  Mass.,  as 
business  manager  of  a  large  factory  devoted  to 
making  ladies'  gowns,  but  he  returned  to 
Quincy  in  February,  1891.  In  1895  the  Park- 


hurst-Duker  Clothing  Company  was  organized 
and  he  became  secretary  and  treasurer.  Febru- 
ary 1,  1898,  the  title  was  changed  to  the  Park- 
hurst Clothing  Company,  of  which  he  is  still 
secretary  and  treasurer.  Active  and  progres- 
sive in  business  and  in  public  affairs  lie  is  one 
of  the  younger  business  men  who  is  making  the 
Quincy  of  to-day.  Mr.  Parkhurst  was  married 
April  26,  1892,  to  Miss  Margaret  Zoe  Haselwood 
and  their  beautiful  home  on  East  Maine  street 
is  one  of  the  finest  of  the  modern  residences  of 
the  city. 


REPRESENTATIVE  MEN  AND  HOMES. 


VOLK,  JONES  &  McMEIN. 


Within  a  very  few  years  Messrs.  Volk,  Jones 
&  McMein  have  built  up  one  of  the  largest  and 
most  important  printing,  publishing  and  blank 
book  making  houses  in  the  entire  west.  In 
April,  1883,  Messrs.  "Volk  and  Jones  bought  out 
the  job  printing  business  of  the  Whig.  At  that 
time  tfie  equipment  consisted  of  one-  cylinder 
and  one  Gordon  press  and  a  limited  quantity  of 
type.  In  1886  they  were  joined  by  Mr.  McMein. 
Not  long  after  they  removed  to  the  second  floor 


CORNELIUS  Q.  VOZ^K. 

Mr.  Volk  was  born  in  Rock  Island,  111.,  March 
30,  1858.  His  father  had  then  been  a  resident 
of  Quincy  for  ten  years,  but  was  temporarily 
located  with  his  family  at  Rock  Island  and  re- 
turned here  soon  after.  The  late  C.  G.  Volk, 
Sr.,  was  a  noted  sculptor,  his  designs  for 
the  Lincoln  and  Lovejoy  monuments  and 
the  statue  of  Governor  Wood  gaining  for 


CORNELIUS   G.  VOLK. 

of  the  Powers'  building,  where  their  entire  office 
was  destroyed  by  fire  in  May,  1897.  The  day  of 
the  fire  they  leased  their  present  large  three- 
story  and  basement  building  on  Hampshire 
street,  and  to-day  they  have  new  cylinder  and 
platen  presses,  a  linotype  or  type-casting 
machine,  a  full  complement  of  new  print- 
ing material  and  a  very  large  and  fully  equipped 
book  bindery  and  blank  book  factory.  It  is  an 
establishment  that  would  do  credit  to  Chicago 
or  St.  Louis,  and  the  work  which  they  turn  out 
is  exceeded  by  very  few  offices  in  the  larger 
cities  in  volume  or  in  quality.  The  lives  of  these 
three  men  have  been  closely  identified  with  each 
other.  In  boyhood  they  worked  together,  their 
young  manhood  was  spent  in  the  same  office 
and  they  have  been  associated  with  each  other 
all  of  their  active  business  lives,  each  contribu- 
ting his  full  share  to  building  up  the  extensive 
house  which  they  now  conduct. 


GERALD  F.  JONES. 

him  a  national  reputation.  He  died  only  last 
year,  but  he  has  left  behind  him  enduring  monu- 
ments that  have  made  his  name  famous.  In 
June,  1873,  the  boy  secured  a  minor  position  in 
the  business  department  of  the  Whig.  He  was 
zealous  and  faithful  and  was  advanced  to  the 
position  of  collector  and  then  became  book- 
keeper. The  ordinary  amusements  of  boyhood 
had  but  little  attraction  for  him  and  when  still 
young  he  assumed  responsibilities  far  beyond 
his  years.  When  he  bought  out  the  Whig  jot) 
printing  department  in  1883,  with  Mr.  Jones, 
neither  was  satisfied  with  the  patronage  that 
came  to  them,  but  both  worked  zealously  for 
larger  and  better  things.  Both  he  and  his  asso- 
ciates in  business  fully  .merit  the  success  they 
have  gained.  Mr.  Volk  was  married  September 
21,  1882,  to  Miss  Emma  F.  Corley.  Their  only 
son,  William  C.  Volk,  is  now  a  student  at  Knox 
Academy,  at  Galesburg. 


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GERALD  F.  JONES. 

Mr.  Gerald  F.  Jones  was  born  in  Quincy,  Janu- 
ary 21,  1859.  His  father,  the  late  W.  C.  Jones, 
was  engaged  in  steamboating  for  many  years  on 
the  Ohio  and  Mississippi  Rivers  and  located  in 
Quincy  in  the  early  '50s.  When  ten  years  of  age 
Gerald  took  a  position  as  carrier  boy  in  the 
Whig  office.  As  a  boy  he  .was  a  remarkably 
rapid  worker  and  was  absolutely  trustworthy 
and  reliable.  He  could  fold  more  papers  than 
any  other  carrier.  He  had  the  longest  route, 


WU/LJAM  H. 

Mr.  William  H.  McMein  was  born  in  New 
York  City  February  9,  I860,  and  came  to  Quincy 
with  his  parents  in  1865.  His  first  work  was 
that  of  carrier  boy  in  the  Whig  office.  When 
fourteen  years  old  he  commenced  learning  the 
printer's  trade  in  the  Whig  newsroom  and  as 
soon  as  he  had  served  hib  time  was  given  the 
advertising  cases.  An  expert  printer,  trust- 
worthy and  reliable,  he  soon  became  foreman  of 


WILLIAM  H.  McMEIN. 


and  there  were  never  any  complaints  from  his 
subscribers.  When  his  schooling  was  com- 
pleted he  learned  the  printing  trade  in  the  Whig 
job  rooms.  He  mastered  every  department  of 
the  printing  business  and  was  expert  in  them 
all.  With  him  it  was  never  how  much  he  could 
save  himself,  but  rather  how  great  an  amount 
of  work  he  could  turn  out.  The  habit  of  untir- 
ing industry  formed  when  he  was  a  boy  has 
characterized  his  after  life  and  has  made  him 
a  power  in  whatever  he  undertakes.  He  has 
devoted  himself  to  the  business  with  which  he 
is  identified  and  has  contributed  his  full  share 
towards  making  his  extensive  printing  house 
and  bindery  one  of  the  most  important  in  the 
west.  Mr.  Jones  was  married  October  9,  1883, 
to  Miss  Harriet  P.  Corley,  and  they  have  one 
daughter. 


the  newsroom  and  later  telegraph  editor. 
Peculiarly  fitted  for  newspaper  work,  a  rapid 
and  successful  writer,  he  took  up  the  work  of 
the  city  editor's  department  and  would  have 
become  managing  editor  of  the  paper  if  he  had 
not  joined  Messrs.  Volk  and  Jones  in  the  job 
printing  business  in  1886.  In  his  present  busi- 
ness as  printer  and  publisher  his  extended  news- 
paper experience  is  of  the  greatest  value  to  him. 
Mr.  McMein  was  elected  alderman  of  the  Seventh 
Ward  in  1897  and  re-elected  last  spring.  He 
has  served  most  acceptably  on  the  auditing 
committee,  the  board  of  health  and  the  commit- 
tee on  streets.  He  was  married  January  6,  1886, 
to  Miss  Lydia  E.  Warfield,  daughter  of  Mr.  W. 
S.  Warfield,  and  they  have  one  daughter  and 
one  son. 


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CHARLES  AND  DAVID  STERN. 


The  very  large  and  important  business  of 
Joseph  Stern  &  Sons  was  inaugurated  by  Mr. 
Charles  Stern  when  he  was  only  sixteen  years  of 
age.  He  was  born  in  Richmond,  Va.,  February 
10,  1351.  Going  to  New  York  with  his  father 
when  he  was  quite  young  he  enjoyed  excellent 
educational  advantages,  attending  the  public 
schools,  Saxk  Institute  and  Bryant  &  Stratton's 
Commercial  College.  He  worked  in  a  wholesale 
clothing  house  in  New  York  for  a  few  months, 


CHARLES  STERN. 

but  in  February,  1867,  his  father  decided  to  open 
a  clothing  store  in  Quincy  and  placed  it  in 
charge  of  his  son,  the  father  spending  most  of 
his  time  in  New  York  looking  after  his  eastern 
interests  and  making  occasional  visits  to  his 
store  in  the  west.  The  boy  was  young  in  years 
for  so  responsible  a  trust,  but  he  at  once  devel- 
oped remarkable  business  capacity  and  unusual 
ability.  He  made  the  people  his  personal  friends 
and  fully  identified  himself  ,with  his  new  home. 
The  venture  was  successful  from  the  start,  the 
business  grew  rapidly,  and  in  1872  Mr.  Charles 
Stern  was  admitted  to  partnership. 

Mr.  David  Stern  was  born  in  Richmond  May 
9,  1855,  and,  like  his  brother,  attended  the 
public  schools,  private  school  and  business 


college.  January  1,  1871,  he  came  to  Quincy 
to  go  into  the  clothing  store,  then  fairly 
established.  He  was  also  young,  but  was  not 
lacking  in  every  business  requirement.  The 
two  brothers  devoted  their  entire  time  to  their 
business.  They  carefully  studied  the  wants 
of  the  trade,  meeting  every  requirement  and 
gradually  elevated  the  standard  of  ready-made 
clothing.  In  1876  Mr.  David  Stern  became 
a  partner  in  the  business.  From  the  start  the 


DAVID  STERN. 

growth  of  this  house  has  been  rapid  and  unin- 
terrupted until  now  Mr.  Charles  and  David 
Stern  are  generally  recognized  as  among  the 
largest  and  most  successful  merchants  in  the 
west.  They  are  still  young  men,  but  they  have 
one  of  the  largest  and  finest  business  blocks  in 
this  section,  where  they  conduct  the  clothing, 
merchant  tailoring,  shoe  and  gents'  furnishing 
trade.  Their  business  house  is  a  credit  to  their 
push  and  energy  and  a  credit  to  Quincy.  In  all 
matters  of  public  enterprise  they  are  among  the 
first  and  most  liberal  contributors,  and  they 
have  done  their  full  share  in  the  development  of 
the  city.  Mr.  Joseph  Stern,  the  senior  member 
of  the  firm,  still  resides  in  New  York,  an  hon- 
ored and  respected  citizen. 


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REPRESENTATIVE  MEN  AND  HOMES. 


GEORGE  H.  STAHL. 

Mr.  George  H.  Stahl,  manufacturer  of  the 
Excelsior  Incubator,  and  one  of  Quincy's  most 
successful  business  men,  is  self-made,  and  his 
success  has  been  achieved  in  a  very  short  term 
of  years.  He  was  born  in  Virginia  City,  Nev., 
February  29,  1864,  a  son  of  Mr.  Solomon  Stahl. 
Coming  here  with  his  parents  two  years  later, 
he  was  given  a  thorough  common  school  and 
commercial  education  and  then  worked  for  his 
father  in  the  fruit  and  produce  business.  He 
early  developed  mechanical  and  inventive 
genius  and  turning  his  attention  to  artificial 
incubation,  then  coming  into  considerable  prom- 
inence, in  1886,  placed  the  Excelsior  incubator 
on  the  market.  The  first  two  years  were  full  of 
discouragement.  The  great  masses  of  the  peo- 
ple had  never  before  heard  of  hatching  eggs  by 
artificial  means  and  had  to  be  educated.  Hav- 
ing full  confidence  in  his  project,  however,  Mr. 
Stahl  redoubled  his  efforts.  The  third  year  he 
was  rewarded  by  a  large  business,  which  has 
increased  steadily  each  succeeding  year.  He 
now  has  a  five-story  factory  building  of  his  own, 
devoted  exclusively  to  the  manufacture  of  incu- 
bators, and  the  Excelsior  is  sold  and  used  in 
every  country  on  the  globe  where  artificial  incu- 
bation is  practiced.  Mr.  Stahl  is  as  popular  as  he 
is  prominent.  While  he  is  a  man  of  decided  opin- 
ions of  his  own  and  a  busy  man  at  all  times,  he 
is  always  approachable.  His  charity  is  dis- 
pensed with  a  most  generous  hand  and  he  is  a 
firm  friend  and  liberal  supporter  of  every 
worthy  cause. 


L.  B.  BARTLETT. 

Mr.  L.  B.  Bartlett,  secretary  and  treasurer  of 
the  Quincy  Casket  Company,  was  born  in  this 
city  October  11,  1862.  As  a  boy  he  was  ambitious 
for  a  business  career  and  started  out  early  in 
life.  His  first  work  was  in  the  office  of  the 
Bradstreet  Commercial  Agency  when  Mr.  James 
A.  Parkins  was  the  Quincy  agent.  Then  he 
worked  for  a  time  for  Clark  &  Morgan,  packing 
crackers.  At  sixteen  he  had  arrived  at  full  man- 
hood and  was  fully  competent  for  a  man's  work. 
Accepting  a  position  as  bookkeeper  in  the 
wholesale  hat  and  cap  house  of  Wood  Brothers, 
he  remained  with  them  until  they  retired  from 
business.  He  afterwards  filled  similar  respon- 
sible positions  with  the  Turner  Tobacco  Com- 
pany, the  Union  Bank,  Cincinnati  Coffin  Com- 
pany and  Isaac  Lesem  &  Co.,  and  on  November 
1,  1885,  was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  Quincy 
Casket  Company.  The  business  was  immedi- 
ately successful  and  by  reason  of  push  and 
energy  this  house  has  become  one  of  the  most 
important  in  this  line  of  trade  in  the  entire 
west.  Mr.  Bartlett  is  characterized  by  close  and 
constant  application  to  business  and  has  made 
for  himself  an  enviable  position  in  the  commer- 
cial world.  He  was  married  November  19,  1885, 
to  Miss  Letitia  Trowbridge,  and  they  have  two 
promising  sons,  Richard  Sylvester  and  Bennett 
Watson. 


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FREDERICK  W.  HALBACH. 

Mr.  Frederick  W.  Halbach  was  born  in  Prus- 
sia in  1847.  His  father  was  a  physician,  and  he 
was  given  a  thorough  collegiate  education.  In 
his  eighteenth  year  he  decided  to  come  to 
America,  and  for  two  years  was  engaged  in  the 
dry  goods  business  in  New  York.  In  1866  he 
came  to  Quincy  and  engaged  in  the  same  line, 
and  in  1873  the  present  firm  of  Halbach  & 
Schroeder  was  organized,  opening  a  store  where 
the  Tenk  Hardware  Company  is  now  located. 
At  the  end  of  the  first  year  they  removed  to  the 
Benneson  block,  where  they  remained  for 
twenty-five  years.  During  the  present  spring 
they  occupied  their  present  quarters,  the  four- 
story  and  basement  Powers'  building,  corner 
Sixth  and  Maine  streets.  The  business  career 
of  Mr.  Halbach  has  been  one  of  uninterrupted 
advancement.  He  is  a  fair  type  of  a  prosperous, 
successful  merchant.  His  undivided  attention 
has  been  devoted  to  his  business,  which  has 
grown  steadily  year  by  year.  The  requirements 
of  the  public  have  been  carefully  studied  and 
each  season  they  have  been  fully  supplied. 
Each  year  the  business  of  the  firm  of  which  he 
is  the  head,  has  shown  a  substantial  increase, 
their  facilities  have  been  enlarged  from  time  to 
time,  until  they  now  have  one  of  the  largest  and 
finest  houses  in  their  line  in  any  western  city. 
Mr.  Halbach  stands  for  everything  that  is 


reliable  and  responsible  and  is  one  of  Quincy's 
most  prominent  and  successful  business  men. 
He  was  married  in  1870  to  Miss  Fredericke 
Kespohl,  and  they  have  five  daughters  and  three 
sons.  Their  spacious  home  on  East  Maine 
street  always  affords  a  most  hospitable  welcome 
to  their  many  friends. 

LEWIS  B.  BOSWELL. 

Out  of  his  own  unaided  efforts  and  under  more 
than  ordinary  adverse  circumstances,  Mr.  Lewis 
B.  Boswell,  has  carved  his  success.  He  was 
born  in  New  Orleans  September  15,  1855.  His 
father,  T.  C.  Boswell,  was  one  of  the  pioneer 
steamfcoatmen  on  the  lower  river  and  was 
widely  known  in  the  early  days.  His  mother, 
nee  Georgiana  Davis,  was  one  of  the  most 
beautiful  and  brilliant  women  of  the  south.  Her 
broad  culture,  happy  disposition  and  kindly 
charity  made  her  a  universal  favorite,  and  her 
death  in  this  city  in  1888  was  most  sincerely 
mourned.  In  1866,  soon  after  the  death  of  his 
father,  Mr.  Lewis  Boswell  came  to  Quincy  with 
his  mother  and  younger  sister.  Adversity  made 
it  necessary  for  him  to  early  provide  for  the 
family  support,  and  when  fourteen  years  of  age 
he  obtained  a  position  in  the  Dollar  Store.  Three 
years  later  he  went  into  the  office  of  the  Vandi- 


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ver  Corn  Planter  Company  as  office  boy  and 
commenced  the  earnest  work  of  his  life.  De- 
voted only  to  his  work  and  to  his  mother  and 
sister,  he  made  rapid  advancement,  securing  the 
position  of  bookkeeper,  and  in  1880  was  elected 
secretary  of  the  company.  In  1893  he  was  made 
manager  and  in  1895  became  president,  holding 
the  latter  responsible  office  until  the  business  of 
the  company  was  closed  out.  In  the  fall  of  1897 
he  was  elected  commissioner  of  the  newly 
organized  Quincy  Freight  Bureau  and  in  that 
position  he  has  been  a  power  for  good  for 
Quincy.  A  man  of  fine  presence,  a  ready 
speaker  and  a  close  writer,  he  has  a  thorough 
and  comprehensive  practical  knowledge  of  every 
department  of  the  freight  business.  Under  his 
administration  many  evils  and  discriminations 
against  Quincy  shippers  have  been  corrected, 
and  from  a  railroad  standpoint  the  interests  of 
the  city  have  been  very  materially  advanced. 
Mr.  Boswell  is  one  of  the  incorporators  of  the 
newly  organized  Quincy  Belt  Line  &  Terminal 
Company.  February  12,  1896,  Mr.  Boswell  was 
married  to  Miss  Nora  Roland,  of  Kansas  City, 
and  they  have  one  son  and  one  daughter,  Dora- 
thy  and  Roland. 


RUDOLPH  TENK. 

Mr.  Rudolph  Tenk,  one  of  the  most  capable 
and  successful  of  the  younger  business  men  of 
Quincy,  was  brought  up  in  the  extensive  busi- 
ness in  which  he  has  become  a  most  important 
factor.  He  is  a  son  of  Mr.  Henry  Tenk  and  was 
born  in  this  city  April  2,  1872.  As  a  boy  he 
manifested  far  more  than  ordinary  ability  for 
mercantile  work  and  when  thirteen  years  of  age 
took  a  position  in  the  hardware  house  of  H.  & 
J.  H.  Tenk.  He  was  advanced  step  by  step, 
thoroughly  learning  every  department  of  the 
extensive  wholesale  and  retail  business.  When 
the  Tenk  Hardware  Company  was  incorporated 
in  1891  he  was  made  a  director  and  later  was 
elected  secretary.  The  development  of  the  busi- 
ness has  been  rapid,  until  this  is  now  one  of  the 
most  important  wholesale  hardware  houses  in 
the  west.  The  main  building  was  rebuilt  and 
materially  enlarged  in  1891  and  in  1894  a  large 


wholesale  warehouse  was  built  in  the  rear. 
With  the  increasing  demand  for  electrical  goods 
and  electrical  supplies  an  electrical  department 
was  added  six  years  ago,  which  is  under  the 
personal  direction  of  Mr.  Tenk  and  which  has 
become  one  of  the  features  of  the  business.  He 
is  the  pioneer  in  this  line  of  work  in  Quincy  and 
installed  the  first  electric  elevator  here,  and  at 
St.  Francis  College  put  in  the  first  electric  light- 
ing plant  operated  by  a  gasoline  engine.  The 


electric  work  for  St.  John's  Church,  the  large 
business  block  of  the  Halbach-Schroeder  Dry 
Goods  Company  and  other  notable  work  of  this 
character  was  put  in  under  his  direction.  Mr. 
Tenk  now  does  all  of  the  buying  for  the  com- 
pany in  all  departments  and  is  considered 
authority  in  everything  pertaining  to  the  hard- 
ware and  electrical  trade.  A  man  of  unusually 
fine  appearance  and  address,  he  is  as  popular  as 
he  is  efficient  in  business  circles.  He  was  mar- 
ried November  21,  1894,  to  Miss  Anna  Hagel,  of 
Mount  Sterling,  111.,  and  they  have  two  daugh- 
ters. 


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BERNARD  H.  MILLER. 

Mr.  Bernard  H.  Miller  is  an  energetic  repre- 
sentative of  the  active  business  men  of  Quincy, 
a  splendid  exemplar  of  the  hustling,  enterpris- 
ing business  spirit  which  has  made  this  city  one 
of  the  most  beautiful  and  progressive  towns  in 
the  entire  west.  He  was  born  at  Norden,  Ger- 
many, January  4,  1848,  and  the  year  following 
his  parents  came  to  this  country,  remaining  in 
New  Orleans  for  a  short  time  and  locating  in 
this  city  April  15,  1850.  His  first  work  was  sell- 
ing newspapers  during  the  war  on  the  McCune 
line  of  packets.  March  1,  1864,  he  secured  a 
place  in  the  drug  store  of  Adolph  Zimmerman 
at  504  Hampshire  street,  but  the  following  fall 
obtained  a  position  in  the  laboratory  of  Jacob  S. 
Merrill,  in  St.  Louis,  and  was  later  employed  by 
E.  J.  Williamson,  in  the  same  city.  He -was  one 
of  the  original  members  of  the  St.  Louis  College 
of  Pharmacy.  In  1866  he  returned  to  Quincy  to 
accept  the  position  of  pharmacist  with  Ruther- 
ford, Hurlbert  &  Co.,  afterwards  Sommer  & 
Metz,  and  three  years  later  associated  himself 
with  the  late  George  Terdenge  and  purchased 
the  drug  store  at  Ninth  and  Broadway.  In  1874 
the  firm  of  Sommer,  Miller  &  Terdenge  was 
formed  and  the  present  store  at  502  Maine  street 
was  opened.  The  year  following,  Mr.  Albert 
Sellner  became  interested  in  the  business,  Mr. 
Sommer  retiring.  On  January  1,  1884,  Mr.  W. 


H.  Arthur  bought  out  Mr.  Terdenge's  interest, 
and  on  January  1,  1889,  Messrs.  Miller  &  Arthur 
became  the  sole  proprietors.  Mr.  Miller  is  one 
of  the  most  active  of  the  public-spirited  business 
men  of  the  city.  He  was  one  of  the  organizers 
of  the  original  board  of  commerce,  a  member  of 
the  committee  that  organized  the  great  demon- 
stration when  the  Soldiers'  Home  was  dedicated, 
was  chairman  of  the  executive  committee  that 
conducted  the  memorable  fall  celebration  in 
1887  when  the  treasury  showed  a  balance  of  over 
$1,500,  and  he  has  been  active  in  organizing 
nearly  every  public  demonstration  held  in 
recent  years.  Mr.  Miller  was  married  June  6, 
1872,  to  Miss  Harriet  Hanshall,  of  this  city,  and 
they  have  two  daughters  and  one  son. 

WILLIAM  H.  ARTHUR. 

Mr.  William  H.  Arthur  was  born  in  this  city 
January  16,  1852.  His  father,  the  late  James 
Arthur,  was  one  of  the  early  settlers  of  Quincy 
and  for  more  than  fifty  years  was  one  of  the 
most  highly  honored  citizens.  Largely  engaged 
in  the  pork  packing  and  sawmill  business  for  a 
long  term  of  years,  he  was  widely  known  as  a 
successful  and  prosperous  business  man.  Of  a 
quiet,  kindly  nature,  a  man  of  broad  charity,  he 


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was  universally  loved  and  respected.  He  passed 
away  in  February  of  the  present  year  at  the 
venerable  age  of  eighty-seven  years  and  his 
death  is  mourned  in  many  homes.  His  son, 
William  H.,  is  much  like  his  father,  possessing 
his  self-reliance,  genial  nature,  close  application 
and  sterling  business  qualities.  After  complet- 
ing his  common  school  education  he  attended 
Knox  College,  but  being  desirious  of  engaging  in 
active  business  went  into  the  book  store  of  Day- 
ton &  Arthur,  having  the  office  management  of 
their  large  wholesale  and  retail  business.  Later 
he  accepted  a  position  of  trust  with  Gardner  & 
Robertson  at  their  hardware  store  and  when 
they  sold  their  hardware  business  he  became 
office  manager  at  their  extensive  factory.  In 
1879  Mr.  Arthur  went  to  Atchison,  Kan.,  where 
he  engaged  in  the  book  and  stationery  business 
with  his  brother,  Newman,  meeting  with  the 
greatest  degree  of  success.  In  1883  he  returned 
to  Quincy  and  purchased  an  interest  in  the  drug 
business,  with  which  he  has  since  been  identi- 
fied, the  firm  being  Miller,  Arthur  &  Sellner.  In 
1888  the  interest  of  Mr.  Sellner  was  purchased 
and  the  firm  has  since  been  Miller  &  Arthur. 
During  this  long  and  successful  partnership,  Mr. 
Arthur  has  had  charge  of  the  financial  depart- 
ment of  the  business,  for  which  he  is  eminently 
fitted.  Like  his  father  he  has  never  sought  pub- 
lic office,  attending  carefully  to  business  and  his 
heavy  wholesale  and  retail  drug  trade  is  the 
best  evidence  of  his  success. 


ELIJAH  D.  YOUNG. 

In  the  early  days  in  Quincy  Mr.  John  Byrd 
Young,  father  of  Mr.  E.  D.  Young,  was  one  of 
the  noted  men  of  the  west.  He  was  connected 
with  the  Byrd,  Boone  and  others  of  the  most 
prominent  families  of  Kentucky  and  located  in 
this  city  in  1836.  Purchasing  a  considerable 
tract  of  land  near  Third  and  Hampshire  streets 
he  built  the  Virginia  Hotel  on  the  corner  where 
the  Schott  buildings  now  stand,  at  that  time  the 
most  desirable  location  in  the  city.  For  many 
years  this  was  the  leading  hotel  of  this  entire 
section  of  country  and  sheltered  many  of  the 
eminent  men  of  the  day.  Back  of  the  hotel  Mr. 
Young  built  the  first  livery  stable  in  Quincy. 
He  was  famous  as  a  trader  and  took  boat  loads 
of  horses  and  mules  to  New  Orleans,  bringing 
back  sugar  and  molasses.  He  also  built  the  first 


stove  and  tin  store  in  Quincy,  located  where  the 
First  National  Bank  building  now  stands.  Mr. 
Young  died  during  the  fearful  cholera  epidemic 
of  1852.  Mrs.  Young,  a  descendant  of  an  old 
Pennsylvania  Dutch  family  and  a  woman  of  rare 
culture  and  refinement,  lived  to  the  advanced 
age  of  85  years  and  died  three  years  ago.  After 
completing  a  comprehensive  education  Mr.  E.  D. 
Young  took  a  position  as  traveling  salesman  for 
the  wall  paper,  paint  and  oil  house  of  D.  E. 
Lynds.  In  1875,  with  his  brother,  John  B.,  he 


bought  out  the  business  and  the  firm  of  Young 
Brothers  was  established,  having  now  been  in 
business  here  nearly  twenty-five  years.  In  1887 
Mr.  John  B.  Young  went  to  Wichita,  Kan.,  and 
established  a  branch  house,  and  in  both  cities 
they  have  been  very  successful.  In  interior 
decoration  Mr.  E.  D.  Young  is  an  artist  of  the 
highest  ability.  Possessing  unusual  talent  in 
color  and  design  he  has  been  instrumental  in 
materially  elevating  the  standard  of  decorative 
work  in  Quincy.  Many  of.  the  most  artistic 
homes  in  the  city  bear  evidence  of  his  genius. 
Mr.  Young  married  March  4,  1891,  Miss  Delia 
Buckley,  daughter  of  the  late  E.  H.  Buckley. 


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JULIUS  KESPOHL. 

An  active  experience  of  forty  years  in  the 
wholesale  and  retail  dry  goods  business  of 
Quincy  has  made  Mr.  Julius  Kespohl  one  of  the 
most  widely  and  familiarly  known  merchants  of 
the  west.  He  has  been  a  leader  in  the  jobbing 
as  well  as  in  the  retail  trade,  conducting  for 
some  years  one  of  the  most  important  wholesale 
dry  goods  houses  in  the  Central  Mississippi 
Valley.  Mr.  Kespohl  was  born  at  Borgholz- 
hausen,  Prussia,  the  center  of  the  great  linen 
district,  May  8,  1844,  and  came  to  this  country 
with  his  parents  in  his  boyhood,  locating  in 
Quincy  in  1857.  After  completing  a  comprehen- 
sive education  he  accepted  a  position  as  clerk  in 
a  retail  dry  goods  store  on  the  north  side  of 
Washington  Park.  In  1864  he  engaged  in  busi- 
ness for  himself,  on  Maine  street,  where  the 
Tenk  Hardware  Company  is  now  located,  build- 
ing up  a  very  large  trade.  Ten  years  later  he 
sold  out  his  business  and  devoted  nearly  a  year 
to  travel  in  Europe.  On  returning  to  Quincy  he 
again  engaged  in  the  dry  goods  trade  and  in 
1875  built  the  building  on  Third' and  Hampshire 
streets,  now  occupied  by  the  Schott  Saddlery 
Company,  where  he  established  one  of  the  most 
extensive  wholesale  dry  goods  houses  in  the 
Mississippi  Valley.  For  five  years  he  carried  on 
an  immense  business  and  in  1880  closed  it  out  to 
engage  in  the  wholesale  and  retail  trade  at  Lin- 


coln, Neb.  In  a  short  time  Mr.  Kespohl  again 
returned  to  Quincy  to  fit  up  in  the  Newcomb 
block,  on  Fourth  and  Maine  streets,  the  finest 
retail  dry  goods  house  in  the  city.  His  next 
location  was  at  Sixth  and  Hampshire  streets, 
but  last  spring  he  returned  to  the  Newcomb 
block,  and  the  Kespohl-Mohrenstecher  Dry 
Goods  Company  was  organized,  to  combine  the 
wholesale  and  retail  trade.  During  his  long 
residence  in  Quincy  Mr.  Kespohl  has  been  active 
in  many  public  enterprises  and  is  recognized  as 
one  of  the  most  enterprising  and  progressive 
men  of  the  city. 


WILLIAM  S.  FLACK. 

Mr.  William  S.  Flack  was  born  in  Lincoln 
County,  Kentucky,  his  grandfather  having 
located  there  before  it  was  admitted  to  state- 
hood. The  young  man  was  brought  up  on  the 
home  farm  in  the  days  when  schools  were  not 
very  numerous,  but  he  made  the  most  of  his 
limited  educational  advantages.  In  1851  he 
came  to  this  city  and  learned  the  carpenter's 
trade,  which  he  followed  for  several  years.  In 
1861  he  commenced  shipping  and  handling  live 
stock,  carrying  on  this  business  extensively. 
Seven  years  later  he  accepted  the  position  of 


REPRESENTATIVE  MEN  AND  HOMES. 


live  stock  agent  for  the  Wabash  Railway,  which 
he  held  for  twelve  years,  few  men  being  toore 
widely  or  favorably  known  to  the  stock  raisers 
of  the  west  and  southwest.  In  1881  the  lumber 
firm  of  Flack  &  Bristol  succeeded  to  the  retail 
business  of  the  Quincy  Lumber  Company.  From 
1886  to  1890  Mr.  Flack  was  interested  in  the  saw 
mill  of  the  Peters  Lumber  Company  at  Brewton, 
Ala.,  and  was  the  local  manager.  On  his  return 
to  Quincy  he  was  interested  in  the  grain  and 
produce  business  with  George  H.  Walker  for 
three  years  and  then  returned  to  the  lumber 
business,  in  which  he  is  still  engaged.  Mr. 
Flack  is  one  of  the  three  constituent  members  of 
the  Vermont  Street  Baptist  Church  now  living. 
He  has  always  taken  an  active  interest  in  Sun- 
day school  work,  being  superintendent  of 
Spruce  Street  Baptist  Sunday  school  and  having 
been  superintendent  of  the  Vermont  Street 
Baptist  Sunday  school  several  years.  There  are 
no  better  men. 

O.  B.  GORDON. 

Mr.  O.  B.  Gordon  is,  like  his  business  associ- 
ate, Mr.  Upham,  a  descendant  of  pioneers  of 
New  England.  He  was  born  in  Fremont,  N.  H., 
July  7,  1845,  both  his  father  and  mother  having 


been  old  residents  of  New  England.  He  came 
to  Quincy  with  his  parents  in  1860,  being  then  a 
boy  of  fifteen,  and  by  his  own  abilities  and 
unremitting  attention  to  duty  has  risen  to  a 
place  of  eminence  in  the  commercial  world.  He 
was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  Quincy 
and  Quincy  college,  and  commenced  his  com- 
mercial life  with  employment  in  his  father's 
store.  In  August,  1867,  he  accepted  a  position 
in  the  shoe  store  of  C.  Brown,  Jr.,  and  four  and 
a  half  years  later  acquired  an  interest  in  the 
business.  That  continued  six  years  and  a  half, 
when  the  firm  of  Upham,  Gordon  &  Co.  suc- 
ceeded Mr.  Brown,  who  wished  to  retire  from 
active  life.  The  business  continued  to  enlarge 
under  the  energetic  and  enterprising  adminis- 
tration of  the  new  firm  until  the  quarters  on 
Hampshire  street  became  inadequate  and  they 
removed  to  their  present  large  building  in 
Wholesale  Row  on  Third  street.  Their  trade 
extends  all  over  the  west,  their  traveling  men 
traversing  almost  every  state  between  the  Mis- 
,sissippi  River  and  the  Rocky  Mountains. 

Mr.  Gordon  is  a  quiet  and  unassuming  gentle- 
man, devoting  himself  to  his  business,  his  fam- 
ily and  his  home,  but  his  influence  is  far 
reaching  and  the  soundness  of  his  judgment  in 
all  affairs  is  universally  recognized.  His  home 
is  at  Sixteenth  and  Jersey  streets,  and  there  his 
friends  find  a  most  delightful  host  and  hostess. 
Mrs.  Gordon  is  a  charming  lady,  and  is  active 
in  many  charitable  and  philanthropic  enter- 
prises of  a  practical  nature,  her  mother,  Mrs. 
Adams,  being  one  of  the  original  promoters  of 
the  Young  Women's  Christian  Home 

JOHN  L.  BERT. 

Very  few  of  the  present  residents  of  Quincy 
date  back  so  far  as  Mr.  John  L.  Bert,  who  has 
lived  here  continuously  more  than  sixty"  years. 
He  was  born  in  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  April  7,  1835,  and 
came  here  with  his  parents  in  July  of  the  same 
year.  His  father,  the  late  Jean  Phillippe  Bert, 
was  for  many  years  the  leading  merchant  tailor 
of  the  city.  He  first  located  here  in  February, 
1835,  and  built  a  home  on  the  east  side  of 
Fourth  street,  between  Maine  and  Jersey,  which 
was  ready  .  for  occupancy  when  the  family 
arrived.  He  continued  in  the  merchant  tailor- 
ing business  up  to  the  time  of  his  death,  in  1860. 
Mr.  John  L.  Bert  was  first  employed  as  a  clerk 
in  the  dry  goods  store  of  John  Murphy,  on  the 
north  side  of  the  square,  in  1853.  Two  years 
later  he  secured  a  position  in  the  dry  goods  and 


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carpet  store  of  Henry  Root,  remaining  with  him 
until  1865,  when  he  associated  himself  with  Mr. 
Van  B.  Shinn  and  Mr.  Fred  T.  Hill  and  bought 
out  the  business,  the  firm  being  Shinn,  Bert  & 
Hill.  On  the  death  of  Mr.  Shinn,  the  year  fol- 
lowing, the  firm  became  Bert  &  Hill  and  was  so 
continued  until  January  1,  1871,  when  Mr.  Bert 
became  sole  proprietor.  In  1879  Mr.  Bert  built 
his  present  handsome  stone-front  carpet  house, 
one  of  the  finest  business  blocks  in  Quincy.  For 
more  than  thirty  years  he  has  been  engaged  in 
business  on  the  west  side  of  Washington  Park 
and  all  of  his  long  and  active  business  experi- 
ence has  been  on  the  square.  In  the  growth  and 
development  of  the  city  he  has  borne  his  full 
share  of  the  burdens  and  has  assiste'd  materially 
in  making  Quincy  a  beautiful  city.  Mr.  Bert 
was  married  in  1860  to  Miss  Mary  B.  Fox  and 
they  have  one  son,  Mr.  Harry  L.  Bert,  who  is 
associated  with  his  father  in  business. 

J.  H.  TENK. 

The  hardware  house  of  which  Mr.  J.  H.  Tenk 
is  one  of  the  founders  is  widely  known  through- 
out the  west  and  has  become  one  of  the  most 
extensive  concerns  in  this  line  of  business  in 
Illinois.  The  business  partakes  of  the  character 
of  the  men  who  have  made  it  what  it  is — solid, 
substantial,  progressive.  The  growth  has  been 


steady  from  the  first,  until  the  present  company 
is  in  position  to  compete  with  the  leading 
houses  of  the  larger  cities.  Mr.  Tenk  was  born 
in  Westphalia,  Germany,  in  1837,  and  came  to 
this  country  with  his  parents  in  1844.  After  six 
months'  residence  in  St.  Louis  he  located  in 
Quincy,  where  he  enjoyed  the  advantages  of  an 
excellent  education.  His  first  position  was  that 
of  clerk  in  the  dry  goods  and  grocery  store  of  B. 
Lubbe,  on  Fifth  and  Maine  streets.  He  was 
then  employed  by  Ricker  &  Arntzen  and  was 
afterwards  connected  with  Sawyer  &  Adams  for 
ten  years.  In  1865  the  hardware  firm  of  H.  &  J. 
H.  Tenk  was  organized,  their  store  being  where 
Hill's  carpet  house  is  now  located.  Ten  years 
later  they  bought  their  present  property.  Suc- 
cessful from  the  start,  the  growth  of  their 
business  has  made  it  necessary  to  very  largely 
increase  their  facilities  from  time  to  time,  their 
main  building  being  rebult  and  remodeled  and 
an  immense  warehouse  being  added  in  the  rear. 
When  the  Tenk  Hardware  Company  was  incor- 
porated in  1891,  Mr.  Tenk  became  treasurer,  and 
he  is  still  active  in  the  management  of  the  im- 
mense business.  In  1866  Mr.  Tenk  was  married 
and  his  family  now  consists  of  wife  and  four 
children.  Mr.  Tenk  was  treasurer  of  the  St. 
Aloysius  Orphan  Society  for  ten  years  and  is 
one  of  the  directors  of  the  Ricker  National 
Bank. 


REPRESENTATIVE  MEN  AND  HOMES. 


JAMES  E.  MacMURRAY. 

Mr.  James  E.  MacMurray,  president  and  gen- 
eral manager  of  the  Quincy  Hardware  Manu- 
facturing Company,  was  born  on  a  farm  in  Knox 
county,  Missouri,  August  7,  1862.  His  grand- 
father moved  from  Kentucky  to  Knox  county,  in 
1829  and  his  father  was  born  there  in  1837.  On 
his  mother's  side  he  is  a  grandson  of  General 
Martin  E.  Green,  Who  was  prominent  in  the 
civil  war,  and  a  nephew  of  James  Green,  United 
States  senator  from  Missouri  during  the  rebel- 
lion. He  lived  on  the  home  farm  until  he  was 
seventeen,  but  was  always  anxious  to  secure  an 
education  and  taught  school  until  he  saved 
money  enough  to  attend  the  graded  school  at 
Canton,  Mo.  He  then  taught  graded  school 
until  he  was  able  to  enter  Chaddock  College, 
where  he  graduated  from  the  scientific  and  law 
departments  in  1884,  working  at  odd  times  to 
maintain  his  expenses.  Mr.  MacMurray  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  June,  1884,  practicing  law 
with  the  late  Aaron  MacMurray  up  to  the  time 
of  his  death,  when  the  firm  of  MacMurray  & 
Swope  was  organized.  Desiring  to  engage  in 
commercial  business  he  bought  a  controlling 
interest  in  the  Quincy  Hardware  Manufacturing 
Company  in  1890,  then  an  unimportant  enter- 
prise, doing  a  limited  business.  To  this  business 
he  devoted  himself  with  tireless  energy.  His 
inventive  genius  was  of  the  highest  advantage 


to  him  and  the  development  of  this  enterprise 
has  been  little  short  of  phenomenal.  In  less 
than  ten  years  it  has  grown  to  a  very  large  fac- 
tory and  its  products  are  shipped  abroad  as  well 
as  being  sold  throughout  this  country.  Mr 
MacMurray  was  a  member  of  the  city  council  in 
1895-6,  serving  as  chairman  of  the  ordinance 
committee.  He  was  married  in  1887  to  Miss 
Katie  L.  Merrill,  of  Perry,  111.,  a  classmate  of 
Mr.  W.  J.  Bryan.  They  have  two  daughters 
and  one  son  and  their  beautiful  and  spacious 
home  is  one  of  the  most  hospitable  in  Quincy. 

E.  H.  OSBORN. 

Mr.  E.  H.  Osborn  was  born  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y., 
July  17,  1841.  He  comes  of  loyal  New  England 
stock,  his  great  grandfather  serving  in  the  revo- 
lutionary war.  At  the  breaking  out  of  the 
rebellion  he  enlisted  in  the  Eighty-seventh  "New 
York  Volunteer  Infantry,  which  was  afterwards 
consolidated  with  the  Fortieth  New  York,  Mr. 
Osborn  serving  as  sergeant  of  Company  H.  His 
regiment  was  one  of  the  most  noted  military 
organizations  of  the  Empire  State,  participating 
in  all  of  the  desperate  battles  of  the  Army  of 
the  Potomac  and  losing  during  the  war  over 
1,200  men.  He  came  to  Quincy  February  22, 
1865,  to  accept  the  position  of  cashier  for  the 


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Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy  Railway  Com- 
pany, which  he  held  for  five  years,  and  shortly 
after  engaged  in  his  present  real  estate  and 
loan  business.  Six  years  ago  he  organized  the 
Adams  County  Abstract  Company,  in  which  he 
is  the  principal  stockholder,  the  set  of  abstract 
books  being  the  best  and  most  complete  in  the 
United  States.  His  long  experience  in  the  real 
estate  business  and  his  complete  and  compre- 
hensive knowledge  of  everything  affecting  titles 
and  pertaining  to  property  have  enabled  him  to 
perfect  a  set  of  books  that  are  absolutely  reli- 
able and  considered  models.  Mr.  Osborn  has 
been  prominently  identified  with  the  real  estate 
and  loan  business  of  Quincy  for  twenty-four 
years  and  has  negotiated  many  important  prop- 
erty transactions.  He  is  also  a  large  owner  of 
desirable  property.  For  many  years  he  has 
taken  an  active  interest  in  the  welfare  of  the 
veterans,  being  past  commander  of  John  Wood 
Post,  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic,  he  has 
served  repeatedly  on  the  staff  of  the  commander 
in  chief  and  is  the  treasurer  of  the  Illinois  Sol- 
diers' and  Sailors'  Home.  He  served  in  the 
city  council  in  1888  and  1889  and  was  the  prime 
mover  in  brick  paving,  as  well  as  the  crusade 
which  took  the  cows  off  the  public  streets.  In 
Masonic  circles  he  is  also  prominent,  being  past 
master  of  Quincy  lodge,  and  a  member  of  the 
chapter,  council,  consistory  and  a  Knight 
Templar.  In  all  that  pertains  to  the  welfare  of 
Quincy  Mr.  Osborn  is  a  representative  citizen. 


Miller  building,  on  Sixth  and  Hampshire  streets. 
In  1885  he  leased  the  two  corner  stores  and  the 
basement  of  the  opera  house  block.  Three  years 
later  he  bought  the  entire  property,  occupying 
the  remaining  stores  in  the  block.  For  six  years 
he  conducted  the  opera  house,  in  addition  to  his 
regular  business,  and  for  three  years  was  his 
own  opera  house  manager,  making  all  of  the 
bookings  and  attending  to  every  detail  of  the 
business.  He  brought  to  Quincy  the  best  attrac- 
tions on  the  road  and  proved  a  most  successful 


ANDREW  DOERR. 

The  business  possibilities  of  this  country  are 
fairly  demonstrated  by  the  experience  of  Mr. 
Andrew  Doerr,  proprietor  of  the  largest  mer- 
chandising establishment  in  Quincy  and  the 
largest  department  store  in  Western  Illinois. 
Mr.  Doerr  was  born  in  Germany  January  10, 
1843,  and  received  a  fair  common  school  educa- 
tion. When  a  boy  he  engaged  in  peddling  and 
in  running  a  stand  at  the  Jahrmarts,  going  from 
city  to  city  and  traveling  on  foot.  He  was  then 
a  soldier  in  the  regular  German  army,  but  the 
life  was  too  slow  for  his  active  temperament, 
and  in  1866  he  came  to  America,  locating  in 
this  city.  The  first  year  he  worked  at  cigar 
making  and  then  went  into  the  dry  goods  store 
of  Ruff  &  Roe  as  a  clerk,  remaining  four  years. 
In  1872  he  bought  a  little  stock  of  merchandise 
and  started  a  store  of  his  own  on  Maine  street, 
near  Sixth.  His  business  prospered  and  he  soon 
moved  to  a  larger  store  and  still  later  to  the 


amusement  manager.  When  the  Empire  The- 
ater was  completed  Mr.  Doerr  abandoned  the 
amusement  business,  rebuilt  his  big  building, 
converting  it  into  a  six-story  and  basement 
department  store.  He  manages  the  entire  busi- 
ness, his  capacity  for  details  being  apparently 
limitless.  It  is  an  ordinary  transaction  for  him 
to  buy  out  a  big  retail  establishment  and  to 
absorb  the  stock  in  his  great  store.  In  his  man- 
ner, Mr.  Doerr  is  genial  and  always  good- 
natured.  The  cares  of  business  rest  lightly  on 
him  and  he  is  universally  popular  in  the  com- 
munity. In  business  he  is  prompt  and  exact, 
making  it  a  rule  to  pay  cash  for  everything  and 
to  sell  for  cash  only.  His  strong  individuality 
is  impressed  on  everything  he  does.  He  has 
carved  out  his  own  fortune  and  few  men  have 
met  with  a  greater  degree  of  success. 


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WILLIAM  T.  DUKER. 

In  speaking  of  the  most  successful  merchants 
of  Quincy  the  name  of  Mr.  William  T.  Duker  is 
always  mentioned.  Though  one  of  the  younger 
of  the  business  men  his  success  has  been  unin- 
terrupted and  he  ranks  as  one  of  the  leading  dry 
goods  merchants  of  the  state.  He  is  a  son  of 
Mr.  Theodore  Duker  and  was  born  in  this  city 
December  14,  1861.  His  schooling  was  supple- 
mented by  a  course  at  St.  Francis  College  and 
by  a  thorough  commercial  education.  Soon 
after  attaining  his  majority  he  formed  a  copart- 
nership with  Mr.  H.  B.  Menke  in  1883,  and  the 
firm  of  Menke  &  Duker  conducted  the  dry  goods 
business  at  711  Maine  street.  Five  years  later 
they  removed  to  the  spacious  new  stone-front 
building,  704  and  706  Maine  street,  and  in  1893 
Mr.  Duker  became  the  sole  owner  of  the  busi- 
ness. He  has  steadily  extended  his  trade, 
increasing  it  five-fold  in  the  first  five  years, 
until  his  dry  goods  house  is  as  familiarly  known 
in  all  the  adjoining  counties  as  it  is  in  Quincy. 
Possessing  all  of  the  qualities  of  a  successful 
merchant  and  a  successful  business  man  he  has 
gone  steadily  forward,  identifying  himself  with 
every  movement  for  the  advancement  of  Quincy 
and  making  a  prominent  place  for  himself  in  the 
commercial  world.  Mr.  Duker  was  married 
February  15,  1887,  to  Miss  Elizabeth  Bowles, 
daughter  of  Mr.  John  Bowles,  and  they  have 
one  daughter,  Edna,  and  one  son,  born  on  Mr. 


Duker's  last  birthday,  and  properly  named  Wil- 
liam T.,  Jr.  Their  home  on  East  Vermont  street, 
remodeled  last  year,  is  one  of  the  attractive 
residences  of  the  city. 

NIKLAUS  KOHL. 

From  the  shipping  room  to  the  presidency  of 
one  of  the  leading  wholesale  grocery  companies 
in  this  section  in  thirty  years — such  is  the  rec- 
ord of  Mr.  Niklaus  Kohl,  president  and  leading 
stockholder  in  the  N.  Kohl  Grocer  Company. 
He  was  born  on  a  farm  in  South  Germany  in 
1836,  where  he  had  the  advantages  of  an  excel- 
lent common  school  education.  In  1857  he  came 
to  this  city  with  very  little  money,  but  with  lots 
of  pluck  and  a  determination  to  succeed.  It 
was  the  year  of  the  great  panic,  business  of 
every  kind  was  demoralized,  but  the  young  man 
in  a  strange  land  did  such  work  as  he  could 
secure  until  in  1861  he  obtained  steady  employ- 
ment in  the  grocery  house  of  Mr.  James  T. 
Baker.  Here  he  continued  until  Mr.  Baker  sold 
out  seven  years  later,  and  soon  after  he  secured 
a  modest  place  in  the  wholesale  house  of  Austin 
&  Co.  With  this  house  he  remained  when  the 
firm  was  changed  to  Austin  &  Manson.  He  was 
one  of  the  hardest  workers  about  the  place  and 
was  best  satisfied  when  the  orders  were  heaviest 
and  the  hours  longest.  Finally  he  took  an 


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interest  in  the  business,  the  firm  name  being 
changed  to  Austin,  Manson  &  Co.,  and  later 
when  Mr.  Manson  concluded  to  sell  his  interest 
the  firm  became  Austin  &  Kohl.  In  July,  1896, 
Mr.  Austin  retired  and  the  N.  Kohl  Grocer  Com- 
pany was  organized,  with  Mr.  N.  Kohl,  presi- 
dent, his  sons,  Adam  and  John,  vice  president 
and  cashier  and  Mr.  John  Soebbing  secretary. 
The  large  building  which  the  company  now 
occupies,  on  Fourth  street,  between  Hampshire 
and  Vermont  streets,  was  purchased  soon  after, 
and  thoroughly  remodeled.  To-day  it  is  one  of 
the  best  arranged  wholesale  grocery  houses  in 
the  country  and  is  packed  full  of  goods,  every 
dollar's  worth  bought  for  spot  cash.  Mr.  Kohl 
has  the  satisfaction  of  managing  and  directing 
this  immense  business  with  his  two  sons  asso- 
ciated with  him.  His  success  has  been  very 
marked,  but  it  has  not  been  a  matter  of  acci- 
dent, close  application  to  business  and  fair  deal- 
ing with  his  patrons  having  built  up  the  heavy 
trade  which  his  company  enjoys. 

GEORGE  ERTEL. 

By  reason  of  his  notable  inventions  and  im- 
provements in  baling  machinery,  incubators  and 
brooders,  Mr.  George  Ertel  is  widely  known 
throughout  the  United  States  and  in  all  coun- 
tries where  baling  presses  and  incubators  are 
used.  He  was  one  of  the  first  of  the  American 
manufacturers  to  place  a  perfect  press  on  the 
market  and  from  a  very  modest  beginning  has 
built  up  a  large  and  important  industry.  Mr. 
Ertel  was  born  in  Neuburg-on-the-Rhein,  Ger- 
many, April  10,  1830.  When  he  was  thirteen 
years  of  age  he  commenced  learning  the  trade 
of  furniture  making  and  then  worked  for  sev- 
eral years  in  different  cities  at  his  trade.  By 
the  advice  of  a  younger  brother  then  located  in 
Pennsylvania,  in  1854  he  came  to  America  with 
his  widowed  mother,  an  older  brother  and  a 
younger  sister,  the  journey  from  Havre,  France, 
in  a  sailing  vessel  requiring  four  weeks.  On 
June  18,  1854,  he  secured  employment  at  furni- 
ture making  at  Elmira,  N.  Y.,  but  the  year  fol- 
lowing located  at  Williamsport,  Pa.  Early  in 
May,  1856,  he  came  to  Quincy,  working  at  his 
trade  three  years  and  then  moving  to  Liberty, 
where  he  engaged  in  the  furniture  business.  In 
1867  he  invented  and  patented  his  first  baling 
press,  which  he  manufactured  in  connection 
with  his  furniture  business.  In  many  impor- 
tant features  his  press  was  an  improvement  on 
anything  previously  introduced  and  it  attracted 
more  than  ordinary  attention.  At  that  time  a 
hay  press  was  practically  unknown — there  being 


but  one  or  two  imperfect  machines  on  the  mar- 
ket. As  there  was  no  railroad  at  Liberty  he 
returned  to  Quincy  in  1868  and  commenced  the 
manufacture  of  baling  machinery  exclusively  in 
a  small  shop  where  his  present  extensive  works 
are  located.  The  business  grew  very  rapidly, 
new  styles  of  baling  presses  were  introduced '/. 
from  time  to  time  until  Mr.  Ertel  conducted  one 
of  the  largest  and  most  important  plants  in  this 
line  of  business  in  the  entire  country.  The  de- 
mand covered  every  state  and  extended  to 
Canada.  Mexico  and  all  other  countries  where 
baling  machinery  is  used.  At  the  present  time 
the  business  in  this  line  is  still  being  increased 


and  extended.  Early  in  1893  Mr.  Ertel  invented 
and  patented  a  complete  line  of  incubators  and 
brooders  and  this  branch  of  the  business  has 
become  a  very  important  feature.  In  December 
of  that  year  his  entire  business  was  incor- 
porated under  the  name  of  George  Ertel  Co., 
and  in  this  corporation  he  holds  the  office  of 
president.  In  1873  he  was  elected  a  member  of 
the  city  council,  serving  two  years  and  in  1875-6 
was  a  member  of  the  board  of  supervisors. 
Since  that  time  he  has  repeatedly  declined  nom- 
inations for  public  office  and  has  devoted  his 
attention  strictly  to  his  extensive  manufactur- 
ing business.  December  8,  1855,  Mr.  Ertel  was 
married  to  Miss  Eva  Elizabeth  Gardner,  at  Wil- 
liamsport, Pa.,  and  they  have  one  son,  Charles 
M.,  born  at  Liberty,  September  18,  1864.  His 
two  brothers  and  sister  are  engaged  in  farming 
in  Crawford  County,  Wisconsin. 


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CHARLES  A.  BLANK. 

Mr.  Charles  A.  Blank,  the  secretary  and  treas- 
urer of  the  Warfield  Grocer  Company,  was  born 
in  Quincy,  June  26,  1852,  and  this  city  has  been 
his  home  all  his  life.  In  1865,  when  only  thir- 
teen years  of  age,  he  commenced  active  life  in 
the  business  with  which  he  has  been  identified 
ever  since.  His  first  position  was  in  the  whole- 
sale grocery  house  of  G.  &  F.  Meyer,  and  he 
remained  with  the  same  house  when  the  firm 
changed  to  G.  T.  Meyer,  then  to  Budde  &  Meyer, 
then  the  consolidated  house  of  Warfield,  Budde 
&  Meyer,  then  Warfield  &  Meyer,  and  then  the 
Warfield  Grocer  Company.  His  father  died 
when  he  was  only  fourteen  months  old,  and  he 
early  assisted  in  the  support  of  his  widowed 
mother.  That  early  self-reliance,  and  his 
energy,  unremitting  attention  to  duty  and  rare 
commercial  ability,  made  him  valuable  to  his 
employers,  and  he  was  retained  through  the 
successive  changes  of  firm  name.  He  was  pro- 
moted from  one  important  position  to  another, 
until  he  is  now  the  secretary  and  treasurer  and 
one  of  the  active  managers  of  the  great  house 
with  which  he  commenced  service  as  a  boy  of 
thirteen  thirty-five  years  ago.  He  was  married 
September  26,  1893,  to  Miss  Mary  B.  Mooney,  of 
Charles  City,  Iowa. 


HENRY  B.  MENKE. 

Among  the  progressive,  successful  merchants 
of  Quincy  none  occupy  a  more  prominent  place 
than  Mr.  H.  B.  Menke,  the  president  and  founder 
of  the  Menke  Dry  Goods  Company.  He  has  been 
actively  engaged  in  the  business  here  for  more 
than  twenty-five  years  and  has  built  up  an 
establishment  which  would  d.o  credit  to  any  of 
the  larger  cities.  Mr.  Menke  was  born  in  Ger- 
many in  1834,  his  early  life  being  spent  in  farm- 
ing and  in  making  brick.  In  1860  he  concluded 
to  try  his  fortunes  in  the  new  world  and  came 
direct  to  Quincy.  For  three  years  he  worked  as 
a  farm  laborer,  having  very  little  means,  but 
having  a  desire  to  engage  in  mercantile  trade 
accepted  a  position  as  clerk  in  the  store  of  A.  J. 
Lubbe.  Ha  continued  as  a  clerk  for  Mr.  Lubbe 
and  for  others  until  1873,  when  he  started  a 
retail  dry  goods  store  of  his  own  at  711  Maine 
street.  The  success  of  this  business  was 
remarkable.  Later  Mr.  W.  T.  Duker  became 
a  partner  and  the  firm  of  Menke  &  Duker  was 
continued  until  1893,  the  spacious  new  building 
on  the  south  side  of  Maine  street  being  built  for 
the  firm  by  Mr.  Menke  in  1888.  In  1893  Mr. 
Menke  retired  from  active  business  owing  to 
impaired  health  and  for  three  years  devoted  his 
time  largely  to  improving  his  elegant  suburban 
home  on  Locust  Boulevard.  In  1896  he  pur- 


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chased  the  store  of  the  Fox  Dry  Goods  Company 
and  the  Menke  Dry  Goods  Company  was  organ- 
ized, occupying  their  new  and  spacious  stone- 
front  building  the  following  spring.  During  the 
summer  of  1898  they  purchased  the  wholesale 
stock  of  Isaac  Lesem  &  Co.,  adding  a  jobbing 
department  to  their  business  and  giving  them 
one  of  the  most  important  wholesale  and  retail 
dry  goods  houses  in  this  section.  Mr.  Menke 
was  married  in  1864  to  Louisa  Brockschmidt,  of 
this  city,  and  they  have  two  sons  and  four 
daughters. 


WILLIAM  STEIN  WE  DELL 

Fcr  fifty  years  Captain  William  Steinwedell 
has  occupied  a  commanding  position  in  Quincy 
commercial  and  financial  circles.  He  is  identi- 
fied with  a  number  of  large  and  important  inter- 
ests, his  remarkable  capacity  for  dealing  with 
varied  enterprises  being  demonstrated  by  his 
uniform  and  unbroken  success.  For  many  years 
he  has  directed  the  affairs  of  several  extensive 
interests,  any  one  of  which  would  have 
demanded  the  entire  time  of  most  business  men. 
He  is  a  commanding  figure  in  the  community, 
bluff  and  outspoken,  yet  hale  and  hearty,  char- 
itable and  generous,  a  highly  cultured  gentle- 
man and  one  of  Quincy's  most  honored  citizens. 
Captain  Steinwedell  was  born  in  Hanover,  Ger- 
many, in  1827,  his  father  being  a  colonel  in  the 
German  army.  He  received  a  thorough  and 
comprehensive  scientific  education  and  his  study 
and  researches  in  science  have  been  continued 
to  the  present  time.  Of  several  important  de- 
partments of  science  he  is  a  master.  Too  much 
of  a  patriot  to  submit  to  the  exactions  imposed 
by  monarchy  during  the  great  revolution  of 
1848,  he  came  to  America,  locating  in  Quincy. 
Two  years  later  the  hardware  and  iron  firm  of 
Bertschinger  &  Steinwedell  was  organized  and 
at  once  commanded  a  large  patronage.  They 
were  the  first  business  house  in  Quincy  to  make 
direct  importations.  In  those  days  nearly  all 
hardware  was  made  abroad  and  Captain  Stein- 
wedell frequently  visited  the  leading  manufac- 
turing cities  of  Europe  to  make  purchases.  This 
firm  continued  in  business  more  than  twenty 
years,  until  October,  1873,  when  the  senior  mem- 
ber decided  to  return  to  his  native  land.  At  the 
breaking  out  of  the  rebellion  Captain  Stein- 
wedell organized  a  local  military  company, 
which  did  valuable  service  in  this  locality,  with- 
out compensation  and  without  expense  to  the 
government.  He  secured  the  money  in  the 


banks  at  LaGrange  and  Canton  and  delivered  it 
to  the  subtreasury  at  St.  Louis,  by  order  of 
Major-General  Fremont;  furnished  the  escort 
for  20,000  stands  of  arms  for  Iowa  troops  from 
Quincy  to  Keokuk;  relieved  the  Sixteenth  Illi- 
nois Regiment  when  it  was  besieged  by  Confed- 
erates at  Monroe  City,  Mo.,  and  was  in  constant/ 
service  for  nearly  four  years.  He  was  presi- 
dent of  the  board  of  trustees  of  the  Soldiers' 
Home  from  1894  until  a  press  of  private  business 
compelled  him  to  resign  in  the  fall  of  1897.  For 
over  twenty  years  he  was  president  of  the  gas 


company  and  is  now  local  director.  He  is  also 
president  of  the  Arrowrock  Mining  and  Milling 
Company,  treasurer  of  Dick  Brothers  Milling 
Company,  secretary  of  Dick  &  Brothers'  Quincy 
Brewing  Company.  He  was  for  a  long  term  of 
years  a  stockholder  in  the  First  National  Bank 
and  is  now  a  stockholder  in  the  State  Savings, 
Loan  and  Trust  Company.  One  of  the  organ- 
izers of  the  Quincy  Turnverein,  he  was  one  of 
the  builders  of  the  Turner  Hall  and  is  now  an 
honorary  member,  having  a  certificate  for 
twenty-five  years'  membership.  To  each  of  the 
varied  interests  with  which  Captain  Steinwedell 
is  identified  he  gives  careful  personal  attention 
and  still  finds  time  for  important  public  affairs, 
in  which  he  has  always  taken  prominent  part. 


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JOHN  McADAMS. 

The  Hon.  John  McAdams,  state  senator  from 
this  district,  is  a  native  of  Adams  county,  born 
on  a  farm  in  Ursa  Township  in  January,  1843. 
His  parents  came  here  from  Kentucky  at  an 
early  day  and  were  among  the  pioneer  settlers 
of  the  county.  After  completing  his  studies  at 
the  home  school  he  attended  the  schools  of  this 
city  for  two  years  and  then  engaged  in  teaching 
for  a  time.  Then  he  returned  to  farming  and 
developed  one  of  the  finest  farms  in  the  entire 
county.  Enterprising  and  progressive,  he  was 
elected  to  the  offices  of  justice  of  the  peace  and 
road  commissioner,  in  the  latter  office  first  dem- 
onstrating his  enthusiasm  for  good  roads,  which 
has  since  brought  about  practical  results.  He 
was  elected  a  member  of  the  general  assembly 
of  1880-81,  serving  during  the  regular  and 
special  sessions.  When  his  term  in  the  legisla- 
ture expired  he  located  in  Quincy  and  has  since 
been  engaged  in  the  grain  and  commission  busi- 
ness. He  was  elected  alderman  of  the  Second 
Ward  in  1897,  serving  one  term.  The  same 
year  he  was  elected  to  the  state  senate  to 
fill  the  vacancy  caused  by  the  death  of  Senator 
Albert  W.  Wells,  and  in  1898  was  re-elected  for 
a  full  term.  In  1863  Senator  McAdams  was 
married  to  Miss  Anna  Smith,  a  most  estimable 
woman,  whose  death  during  the  past  winter  is 


most  sincerely  lamented.  Senator  McAdams  is 
popular  in  his  party  and  has  never  been 
defeated  for  office;  in  his  case  the  office  has 
sought  the  man. 

S.  P.  BARTLETT. 

For  more  than  twenty  years  Mr.  S.  P.  Bartlett 
has  held  the  position  of  secretary  of  the  Illinois 
State  Fish  Commission  and  in  his  chosen  field 
of  work  has  gained  a  national  reputation.  In 
all  matters  pertaining  to  the  propagation,  pre- 
servation and  distribution  of  fish  he  is  consid- 
ered authority.  He  was  first  appointed  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Illinois  commission  in  1877  and  some 
years  ago  was  also  appointed  field  superinten- 
dent of  the  United  States  Fish  Commission, 
being  at  present  in  charge  of  Quincy  station. 
The  work  in  this  state  is  of  first  importance 
from  the  fact  that  the  Illinois  River  is  one  of 
the  finest  and  most  productive  streams  in  the 
entire  country,  and  each  year  hundreds  of  car 
loads  of  young  fish  are  reclaimed  and  saved 
under  his  direction  from  the  shallow  lakes  and 
sloughs  along  the  Illinois  and  distributed 
throughout  the  state  and  throughout  the  coun- 
try. Mr.  Bartlett  has  conducted  his  work  for 
the  state  and  national  commissions  with  a  zeal 
and  energy  possessed  by  very  few  men.  He  has 


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a  perfect  knowledge  of  the  nature  and  habits  of 
all  the  native  fish  and  his  success  in  this  work 
has  gained  for  him  unusual  distinction.  Fish  is 
a  much  more  important  factor  in  the  food  sup- 
ply of  the  country  than  is  generally  understood 
and  his  efforts  in  increasing  and  developing  this 
staple  have  resulted  in  lasting  good  to  the  peo- 
ple. 

Mr.  Bartlett  was  born  in  Quincy  in  1842  and 
this  city  has  always  been  his  home.  His  father, 
the  late  S.  M.  Bartlett,  was  one  of  the  founders 
of  the  Quincy  Whig,  which  was  established  by 
Bartlett  &  Sullivan  in  1838,  more  than  sixty 
years  ago.  For  several  years  following  the  close 
of  the  war  Mr.  S.  P.  Bartlett  conducted  the  lead- 
ing grocery  house  of  the  city  and  was  also  an 
extensive  shipper  of  fruits.  In  1877  he  retired 
from  commercial  business  to  devote  his  atten- 
tion to  his  present  work,  in  which  he  has  few 
peers  in  the  entire  country.  Mr.  Bartlett  has  a 
very  wide  acquaintance  with  public  men.  Genial 
and  affable,  a  royal  companion  and  a  steadfast 
friend,  he  is  a  welcome  guest  everywhere. 

ENOCH  R.  CHATTEN. 

To  the  late  B.  I.  Chatten,  the  honored  father 
of  Mr.  Enoch  R.  Chatten,  Quincy  is  indebted 
for  its  splendid  system  of  grades  and  its  uni- 
formly level  streets.  For  many  years  Mr. 
Chatten,  Sr.,  was  one  of  the  leading  ministers 
in  the  Illinois  conference  of  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  church.  His  early  education  had  been 
along  scientific  lines,  however,  and  in  the  early 
40's  he  resigned  his  pastorate  at  Alton,  at  that 
time  the  highest  appointment  in  the  conference^ 
to  accept  a  position  in  the  government  engin- 
eering office  in  St.  Louis.  Two  or  three  years 
later  he  located  at  Fall  Creek  and  engaged 
in  engineering.  In  1847  he  was  elected  county 
surveyor,  which  office  he  held  continuously 
until  his  death,  March  22,  1871.  For  a  long  term 
of  years  he  also  held  the  position  of  city  engin- 
eer. He  established  the  system  of  grades  and 
laid  out  most  of  the  streets  of  the  city,  this 
work  being  an  enduring  monument  to  his  skill 
and  ability.  When  the  original  topography  is 
considered  his  work  seems  the  more  remarkable. 
The  heavy  draws  leading  up  from  the  river,  the 
hiph  hills  and  deep  ravines,  were  changed  to 
broad  and  level  streets,  with  just  enough  slope 
to  promote  a  perfect  system  of  natural  drain- 
age. Mr.  Chatten  was  known  to  nearly  every 
resident  of  the  county  and  was  universally  hon- 
ored and  respected.  He  was  the  soul  of  honor 


in  all  things  and  his  good  name  will  endure  as 
long  as  Quincy  stands.  The  picturesque  stone 
bridges  across  Ashland  creek  and  Mill  creek, 
built  by  him  fifty  years  ago,  are  fair  samples  of 
his  artistic  and  honest  work. 

Mr.  Enoch  R.  Chatten  was  born  at  Fall  Creek, 
April  4,  1846.  When  a  young  man  he  enlisted  in 
the  late  Governor  Woods  regiment,  the  137th 
Illinois,  and  at  the  close  of  the  war  was  asso- 
ciated with  his  father  in  engineering  work.  He 
was  elected  city  engineer  in  1869  and  with  the 


exception  of  one  year  held  the  office  continu- 
ously up  to  the  present  year.  A  worthy  succes- 
sor of  an  honored  father,  he  not  only  inherits 
his  father's  remarkable  ability,  but  also  his 
uncompromising  integrity.  While  the  father 
established  the  grades  and  laid  out  the  streets, 
the  son  has  preserved  the  grades  and  made  the 
streets  permanent.  On  him  has  devolved  the 
entire  engineering  work  for  the  many  miles  of 
street  paving  and  sewer  building.  This  system 
of  public  improvements  has  gone  steadily  for- 
ward under  Mr.  Chatten's  direction  until 
Quincy  has  been  made  one  of  the  most  beautiful 
and  attractive  cities  in  the  entire  country.  For 
more  than  fifty  years  the  father  and  son  ha 
labored  honestly,  faithfully  and  zealously  in 
making  Quincy  what  it  is  and  like  the  father  the 
son  has  done  his  work  well. 


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LEATON  IRWIN. 

Lika  many  of  Quincy's  most  successful  busi- 
ness men,  Mr.  Leaton  Irwin  is  not  only  self- 
made,  but  inaugurated  and  built  up  the  exten- 
sive commercial  enterprise  of  which  he  is  the 
head.  He  was  born  at  Plymouth,  111.,  August 
7,  1863.  In  his  boyhood  his  advantages  for 
schooling  were  limited,  but  he  was  determined 
to  have  an  education,  and  in  the  summer  time 
sold  books  that  he  might  attend  school  in  the 
winter.  When  eighteen  years  of  age  he  had 
gained  an  appointment  to  the  West  Point  Mili- 
tary Academy  and  came  to  Quincy  to  start  for 
West  Point.  Here  he  concluded  that  he  pre- 
ferred a  literary  rather  than  a  military  educa- 
tion, and  entered  Chaddock  College,  graduating 
with  honors.  For  two  years  after  graduating 
he  held  the  chair  of  mathematics  at  Chaddock. 
Then  for  four  years  he  was  correspondent  for 
Pope,  Lockwocd  &  Co.  In  1887  he  engaged  in 
the  wholesale  paper  trade  and  in  twelve  years 
has  built  up  the  business  of  the  Irwin  Paper 
Company,  of  which  he  is  president,  one  of  the 
largest  concerns  in  this  line  of  trade  in  the  west, 
a  credit  to  Quincy  and  to  the  business  capacity 
cf  its  founder.  Mr.  Irwin  was  also  largely 
interested  for  a  time  in  the  Quincy  Hardware 
Manufacturing  Company,  holding  a  majority  of 
the  stock.  He  was  the  prime  mover  in  the 
organization  of  the  Quincy  Freight  Bureau  and 


is  secretary  of  that  important  association  of  the 
leading  shippers  of  the  city.  A  man  of  broad 
charity,  Mr.  Irwin  is  a  generous  contributor  to 
worthy  causes  and  is  a  good  citizen  as  well  as  a 
prosperous  and  successful  business  man. 

WALTER  SPRY 

Mr.  Walter  Spry  was  born  in  Chicago  in  1868, 
and  received  his  education  in  that  city  at  the 
Chicago  Manual  Training  School  and  the  Chi- 
cago Musical  College.  After  graduating  he  went 
abroad  to  continue  his  musical  studies  and  had 
the  personal  instruction  of  such  great  masters 
as  Leschetizky,  of  Vienna;  Rudorff  and  Urban, 
of  Berlin.  Returning  to  America  Mr.  Spry 
devoted  himself  to  teaching  and  appeared  sev- 
eral times  in  concerts  and  piano  recitals  in  his 
native  city  and  always  with  success.  Wishing, 
however,  to  study  the  higher  forms  of  musical 
composition  he  decided  to  go  to  Paris,  where  he 
remained  two  years,  making  altogether  six 
years  abroad.  Professor  Rousseau,  who  was 
Mr.  Spry's  teacher  and  who  is  one  of  the  leading 
professors  at  the  Paris  Conservatory,  said:  "Mr. 
Spry  is  the  most  talented  young  American  musi- 
cian I  have  had  the  honor  and  pleasure  to 
know."  In  1897  Mr.  Spry  accepted  the  director- 
ship of  the  Quincy  Conservatory  of  Music  and 
through  his  artistic  and  business-like  manage- 
ment has  established  the  institution  as  one  of 
the  leading  schools  of  music  in  the  west. 


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WILLIAM  E   KENDALL. 

Mr.  William  E.  Kendall  is  a  native  of  Quincy, 
born  here  December  1,  1860.  His  father,  Mr.  F. 
C.  Kendall,  is  one  of  the  oldest  residents  of  this 
county,  coming  here  from  Warren  county,  Ohio, 
in  1838.  After  receiving  a  good  common  school 
and  a  thorough  business  education,  Mr.  William 
E.  Kendall  learned  telegraphy  and  in  1880 
accepted  a  position  as  night  clerk  in  the  freight 
house  of  the  Hannibal  &  St.  Joseph  Railway. 
He  was  afterwards  appointed  car  accountant 
and  then  bill  clerk,  and  when  the  H.  &  St.  J.  Ry. 
was  absorbed  by  the  Chicago,  Burlington  & 
Quincy,  he  was  made  car  accountant.  In  1889 
he  was  promoted  to  the  position  of  baggage- 
master,  which  position  he  still  holds.  Prompt, 
courteous  and  absolutely  reliable,  he  is  univer- 
sally popular  with  the  traveling  public  and 
commands  the  confidence  and  respect  of  the 
officers  of  the  company.  In  1893  he  was  elected 
alderman  of  the  First  Ward  on  the  republican 
ticket  by  a  large  and  flattering  majority.  In 
1895  he  was  re-elected  and  last  spring  was  again 
elected  for  the  third  time.  His  record  in  the 
city  council  has  been  above  reproach.  On  all 
public  questions  he  has  been  fearless  and  out- 
spoken, tireless  in  his  efforts  for  promoting  the 
welfare  of  the  city  and  his  long  service  has  been 
cf  the  highest  advantage  to  the  progress  of 
Quincy. 


HENRY  H.  MOLLER. 

For  nearly  twenty-five  years  Mr.  Henry  H. 
Moller  has  been  prominently  identified  with  the 
lumber  trade  of  Quincy  and  he  is  as  well  and 
favorably  known  in  the  leading  lumber  markets 
of  the  north  as  he  is  here  at  home.  The  firm  of 
Moller  &  VandenBoom,  of  which  he  is  the  senior 
member,  is  engaged  largely  in  the  wholesale 
trade  in  addition  to  their  extensive  retail  busi- 
ness, shipping  to  nearly  all  towns  and  cities 
tributary  to  Quincy.  Mr.  Moller  was  born  in  St. 
Louis  May  29,  1848,  and  came  to  this  city  with 
his  parents  in  1856.  As  a  boy  he  had  a  strong 
desire  to  engage  in  commercial  business  and 
when  quite  young  secured  a  position  in  the 
Ricker  Bank,  remaining  there  four  years.  He 
was  afterwards  employed  at  the  Menke  & 
Grimm  planing  mill  and  in  the  business  office  of 
Wendelin  Weber  and  Dick's  brewery.  July  15, 
1875,  the  lumber  firm  of  Moller  &  VandenBoom 
was  organized  and  has  been  one  cf  the  most 
successful  in  this  branch  of  business  in  the  his- 
tory of  the  city,  conducting  four  important 
lumber  yards  at  the  present  time.  Mr.  Moller 
was  a  member  of  the  board  of  supervisors  for 
five  years,  serving  on  the  finance  committee, 
and  chairman  of  the  poor  farm  committee,  and 
his  influence  had  much  to  do  in  shaping  legisla- 
tion in  that  body.  Careful  and  conservative  in 
business  affairs,  yet  enterprising  and  progres- 
sive, he  is  one  of  Quincy's  substantial  citizens. 
Mr.  Moller  was  married  January  10,  1871,  to 
Miss  Louisa  VandenBoom,  and  they  have  four 
sons  ard  one  daughter. 


REPRESENTATIVE  MEN  AND  HOMES. 


NICHLAS  HE1NTZ. 

Mr.  Nichlas  Heintz  was  born  in  Germany  in 
1839.  His  father  was  a  farmer  and  when  ten 
years  of  age  the  boy  contributed  his  full  share 
to  the  farm  work.  In  1854  he  came  with  his 
parents  to  this  country,  locating  in  Milwaukee. 
It  was  the  year  of  the  fatal  cholera  epidemic 
and  within  a  week  after  their  arrival  in  Mil- 
waukee his  father  and  mother  were  stricken  and 
both  died.  The  son,  thrown  on  his  own 
resources,  commenced  to  learn  the  shoemaker's 
trade,  working  one  year  in  Milwaukee  and  four 
years  in  St.  Paul,  but  he  was  young  and  received 
very  low  wages.  In  the  fall  of  1859  he  came  to 
Quincy  and  secured  a  place  at  his  trade  with  Mr. 
Kettler,  remaining  with  him  two  years.  Then 
he  went  into  the  shoe  store  of  C.  Brown,  Jr..  as 
a  clerk,  working  for  Mr.  Brown  six  years,  when 
he  took  an  interest  in  the  business,  being  with 
this  house  seventeen  years.  In  1878  he  opened 
his  present  large  shoe  house  on  Maine  street  and 
has  since  been  at  the  head  of  the  trade  in 
Quincy.  He  has  fine  property  interests  here, 
including  the  building  which  he  occupies,  and 
the  Heintz  office  building,  opposite  the  court 
house.  Mr.  Heintz  is  an  active  and  most  effec- 
tive worker  for  all  public  enterprises.  He  was 
one  of  the  organizers  of  the  board  of  commerce 
and  is  a  member  of  the  directory.  He  was 
chairman  of  the  market  committee  and  may 
fairly  be  called  the  father  of  the  present  public 
market,  and  he  has  been  an  effective  worker  for 


good  roads  leading  to  West  Quincy  and  in  this 
county.  He  is  the  present  president  of  the  retail 
boot  and  shoe  association  of  Quincy.  In  fact  he 
is  one  of  Quincy's  most  active  and  enterprising 
citizens. 

JOSEPH  B.  MENKE. 

Though  one  of  the  younger  business  men  of 
the  city,  Mr.  Joseph  B.  Menke  is  one  of  the  most 
successful.  He  is  the  son  of  Mr.  H.  B.  Menke, 
with  whom  he  is  associated  in  the  extensive 
business  of  the  Menke  Dry  Goods  Company. 
Born  in  Quincy,  July  19,  1867,  he  enjoyed  the 
best  educational  advantages,  attending  St. 
Francis  College  and  Blackburn  University  after 
leaving  the  common  schools.  His  first  work 
was  in  his  father's  dry  goods  store  and  he  was 
afterwards  with  Menke  &  Duker.  Desiring  a 
wider  and  more  extended  experience,  in  1892  he 
accepted  a  position  in  the  extensive  establish- 
ment of  B.  Nugent  &  Brother,  St.  Louis,  and 
also  filled  an  important  position  with  Mack 
Schulz,  in  the  same  city.  In  1896,  his  father 
having  purchased  the  business  of  the  Fox  Dry 
Goods  Company,  Mr.  Menke  returned  to  Quincy 
and  the  Menke  Dry  Goods  Company  was  organ- 
ized. In  the  spring  of  the  following  year  the 
company  removed  to  the  new  and  spacious 
building  which  they  now  occupy  and  last  year 
added  a  wholesale  department  to  their  business, 
having  purchased  the  stock  of  Isaac  Lesem  & 
Co.  Mr.  Menke  is  a  born  merchant  and  a  pro- 
gressive and  successful  business  man. 


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LOUIS  F.  SCHAEFER. 

Probably  few  of  the  younger  business  men  of 
Quincy  are  more  generally  known  throughout 
the  city  than  Mr.  Louis  F.  Schaefer,  by  reason 
of  his  long  connection  with  the  Morning  Whig. 
He  was  born  in  this  city,  September  29,  1871, 
and  is  a  son  of  Mr.  George  Schaefer.  His  father 
is  one  of  the  older  residents  of  Quincy,  coming 
here  in  the  40's,  and  for  years  conducted  an 
extensive  cooperage  business.  A  man  of  sterl- 
ing qualities  and  genuine  worth,  he  is  now  free 
from  the  cares  of  active  business,  an  honored 
and  respected  citizen.  When  fifteen  years  of 
age  Mr.  Louis  Shaefer  went  into  the  Whig  office 
as  office  boy.  He  had  been  a  close  student  and 
enjoyed  the  advantages  of  a  common  school 
education  beyond  his  years.  Applying  himself 
closely  to  business,  he  was  soon  bookkeeper  and 
before  he  was  twenty,  filled  the  position  of 
assistant  business  manager  and  cashier.  When 
the  present  Whig  company  was  organized  last 
July,  he  was  made  business  manager,  a  position 
which  he  resigned  in  October  to  accept  his  pres- 
ent position  of  bookkeeper  and  cashier  at  the 
Newcomb  Hotel.  Mr.  Schaefer  is  an  expert 
bookkeeper  and  accountant,  a  trained  and  ready 
correspondent  and  a  man  of  sterling,  rugged 
honesty.  In  the  business  community  he  is 
widely  known  and  universally  respected. 


JOHN  L.  SOEBBING. 

While  one  of  the  younger  of  the  representa- 
tive business  men  of  Quincy,  Alderman  John  L. 
Soebbing  occupies  a  prominent  place  in  the 
wholesale  trade  of  the  city.  He  comes  of  two  of 
the  old  and  well-known  families  of  Quincy,  his 
father,  Mr.  Anton  Soebbing,  having  located  here 
in  1853,  and  his  mother  in  1847.  He  was  born 
in  this  city  February  2,  1861,  receiving  a  good 
common  school  education,  but  started  out  for 
himself  early  in  life,  when  a  mere  boy  working 
for  Dr.  Rittler  and  then  in  the  drug  store  of 
Mr.  P.  Carus,  on  Maine  street,  where  he 
remained  until  the  business  was  closed  out  by 
the  death  of  the  druggist.  He  then  secured  a 
position  with  the  grocery  house  of  C.  R.  Oliver, 
Eleventh  and  Broadway,  and  afterwards  work.ed 
for  Mr.  John  J.  Metzger,  the  latter  being  con- 
vinced that  young  Soebbing  had  the  making  of 
a  strong  business  man  and  inducing  him  to  take 
a  thorough  commercial  education.  On  leaving 
the  business  college  he  returned  to  Oliver's 
store,  working  also  for  the  successor  firm. 
Strickling  &  Co.,  and  later  for  Jacob  Scholz.  In 
the  spring  of  1884  he  accepted  a  position  with 
Mr.  John  Altmix  and  in  1887  engaged  in  the 
grocery  business  at  Twelfth  and  Vine  streets, 
buying  out  John  Winkeljohn.  Three  years  later 
he  built  a  spacious  store  building  of  his  own  on 
the  opposite  corner  and  _  his  brother  became 


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associated  with  him  in  the  business.  In  1896 
Mr.  Soebbing  retired  from  the  retail  trade  and 
became  interested  in  the  wholesale  house  of 
the  N.  Kohl  Grocer  Company  and  was  elected 
secretary,  a  position  which  he  still  holds.  A 
thoroughly  successful  and  progressive  business 
man  he  has  contributed  his  full  share  to  the 
material  increase  in  the  business  of  this  exten- 
sive wholesale  grocery  concern  since  the  incor- 
poration. Mr.  Soebbing  served  on  the  board  of 
supervisors  in  1889-90  and  in  the  City  Council 
1891-3,  being  a  member  of  the  auditing,  water 
and  light  committees  and  making  a  most  envi- 
able record  as  a  public  official.  In  1896  he  was 
re-elected  to  the  council,  but  resigned  4n  the  fall 
owing  to  his  change  of  residence.  Last  spring 
he  was  again  elected  alderman  and  is  now  a 
member  of  the  finance,  water  and  light  commit- 
tees. He  is  identified  with  important  business 
interests,  being  vice  president  and  a  director  in 
the  Excelsior  Stove  Manufacturing  Company 
and  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  Quincy  Sand 
Company.  He  is  also  treasurer  of  St.  Andrew's 
branch  W.  C.  U.  Mr.  Soebbing  was  married 
October  30,  1883,  to  Miss  Clara  Altmix,  and  they 
have  four  sons  and  four  daughters. 

LLEWEYLYN  B.  McKENNA. 

Prof.  McKenna,  teacher  and  author,  occupies 
a  position  peculiarly  his  own  in  the  higher  edu- 
cational circles  of  Quincy.  It  is  a  position  made 
honorable  by  twenty-five  years  of  faithful,  suc- 
cessful teaching,  prominent  by  reason  of  the 
thousands  of  prosperous  and  successful  business 
men  and  women  whom  he  has  graduated.  Few 
educators  in  the  country  have  so  wide  an 
acquaintance,  his  graduates  being  located  in 
every  state  and  territory  and  in  the  countries 
beyond  the  seas.  The  influence  of  his  teaching 
in  starting  young  men  and  young  women  in  suc- 
cessful business  careers  cannot  be  measured. 
The  text  books  which  he  has  written  are  every- 
where accepted  as  standard  and  are  in  use  in 
nearly  every  leading  commercial  school 
throughout  the  country.  Prof.  McKenna  was 
born  in  Prince  Edward  county,  Ontario,  April 
18,  1844.  He  attended  the  grammar  school  at 
Stirling,  Ontario,  and  afterwards  the  Illinois 
Normal  University,  at  Normal,  and  then  gradu- 
ated from  the  German  and  English  College,  in 
this  city,  in  June,  1871,  receiving  the  degree  of 
Master  of  Arts  from  Johnson  College,  an  out- 
growth of  the  German  and  English  College,  In 
June,  1877.  The  degree  of  Doctor  of  Laws  was 
conferred  on  him  by  Chaddock  College,  in  June, 
1891.  His  first  teaching  in  Quincy  was  In  the 


Gem  City  Business  College,  then  conducted  by 
Howe  &  Musselman,  May,  1874,  and  he  contin- 
ued with  that  college  until  August,  1897,  an 
uninterrupted  professorship  of  more  than 
twenty  years.  His  position  was  the  head  of  the 
department  of  mathematics  and  law.  The  text 
books  which  he  has  written  include  Practical 
Business  Arithmetic,  first  published  in  1889, 
since  reprinted  in  several  editions  and  in  gen- 
eral use  in  business  colleges  and  high  schools; 
Principles  of  Commercial  Law,  published  in 
1893,  and  used  extensively  in  commercial  col- 


leges and  normal  schools;  Manual  for  Business 
Letter  Writing,  a  standard  authority  found 
everywhere  on  business  men's  desks  and  used  in 
normal  schools;  Ideal  Arithmetic,  now  in  use 
in  the  Union  Business  College  and  sold  exten- 
sively from  Maine  to  California.  His  latest  text 
book,  Correct  English  and  Its  Essentials,  is  now 
in  manuscript  and  will  be  published  during  the 
present  year. 

Prof.  McKenna  is  now  president  of  the  Union 
Business  College  and  teacher  of  commercial 
arithmetic,  commercial  law  and  letter  writing. 
In  his  long  and  notable  experience  he  has  grad- 
uated upwards  of  12,000  students.  Thorough- 
ness is  his  ruling  characteristic  in  teaching  and 
a  diploma  with  his  name  attached  is  everywhere 
accepted  as  a  proof  of  proficiency.  Now  in  the 
prime  of  life  and  at  the  head  of  a  leading  busi- 
ness college,  he  has  many  years  of  successful 
work  before  him. 


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'IH.  P.  WALTON. 

Mr.  H.  P.  Walton,  the  president  of  the 
Humane  Society  and  a  member  of  the  board  of 
local  improvements  and  superintendent  of 
streets,  has  done  much  for  the  alleviation  of  the 
needless  sufferings  of  the  brute  creation  and  for 
the  beautifying  of  the  city.  He  was  born  in 
Massachusetts  April  25,  1832,  and  is  a  son  of 
Jonathan  and  Eliza  (Locke)  Walton.  The  fam- 
ily is  one  of  the  oldest  in  America,  the  founder 
of  it  in  this  country,  the  Rev.  William  Walton, 
having  come  from  Exeter,  England,  in  1632. 
The  Lockes  came  four  years  earlier,  in  1628,  and 
the  family  homestead  in  Arlington  is  the  oldest 
house  in  that  city.  The  Waltons  were  among 
the  patriots  who  fought  for  American  indepen- 
dence, and  there  were  ten  members  of  the  fam- 
ily in  the  revolutionary  army.  Edmund  Mun- 
roe,  the  great  grandfather  of  Mr.  Walton,  en- 
listed in  the  king's  army  when  a  young  man, 
and  was  present  at  the  capture  of  Quebec. 
Twelve  years  later  he  was  in  the  ranks  of  the 
patriots,  and  fought  at  Bunker  Hill.  He  was 
with  General  Gates  when  Burgoyne's  army  was 
captured  at  Saratoga,  and  was  with  Washington 
at  Valley  Forge.  A  letter  written  by  him  to  his 
wife  during  that  awful  winter  is  one  of  the  heir- 
looms of  the  family.  He  was  killed  the  next 
June  by  a  cannon  ball  at  the  battle  of  Mon- 
mouth,  he  then  holding  the  rank  of  captain. 


Mr.  Walton  was  born  at  Arlington,  and  re- 
mained there  during  his  youth  and  early  man- 
hood. In  1869  he  came  west,  locating  in  Kent- 
land,  Ind.,  where  he  engaged  in  the  grocery  and 
hotel  business,  in  which  he  was  remarkably  suc- 
cessful. He  came  to  Quincy  in  1873,  but  re- 
tained his  business  interests  in  Indiana  until 
1886,  when  he  finally  disposed  of  them. 

He  was  married  November  13,  1873,  to  Sarah 
E.  Jackson,  a  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Eliza  J. 
Jackson.  She  was  born  in  Boston  August  4, 
1834,  and  came  to  Quincy  with  her  parents  when 
nine  months  old,  her  father  having  been  one  of 
the  pioneers  of  the  city.  Her  father  was  born 
in  1803  and  died  in  1890.  Her  mother  was  born 
in  1809  and  died  in  1874.  He  was  one  of  the 
substantial  citizens  of  Quincy,  and  several  hand- 
some business  blocks  are  the  monuments  of  his 
enterprise  and  public  spirit. 

Mr.  Walton  is  a  sturdy  republican,  his  first 
vote  for  president  having  been  cast  for  Free- 
mont.  He  tried  to  enlist  in  the  union  army  at 
the  first  call  for  troops,  but  was  rejected.  A 
brother  was  accepted,  and  served  for  three  years 
with  distinction. 

He  is  an  untiring  promoter  of  humane  work, 
and  has  been  president  of  the  Quincy  Humane 
Society  for  several  years.  He  is  also  president 
of  the  Woodland  Cemetery  Association.  He  is 
a  member  of  the  board  of  local  improvements 
and  superintendent  of  streets,  and  has  been 
instrumental  in  the  inauguration  of  much  im- 
portant public  work.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Knights  Templar  and  the  Knights  of  Pythias. 
\s  a  man  and  a  citizen,  his  life  is  one  which 
can  be  held  up  for  general  emulation. 

JAMES  DICKSON. 

Alderman  James  Dickson,  general  foreman 
for  the  Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy  Railway 
and  leased  lines,  was  born  at  Patricroft,  Lan- 
cashire, England,  January  16,  1847.  He  enjoyed 
a  comprehensive  mechanical  education,  learn- 
ing the  trade  of  a  machinist  in  Liverpool  and 
Birkenhead.  Advanced  step  by  step  through  all 
departments  in  his  line  of  work,  under  the  very 
thorough  English  system,  he  received  a  certifi- 
cate which  opened  the  doors  of  any  mechanical 
works  in  the  country  where  the  services  of  an 
expert  were  required,  his  education  including  the 
theory  of  mechanics  and  construction  as  well  as 
a  practical  knowledge  of  the  work.  It  was  while 
employed  in  Laird's  mammoth  ship  building 
works  at  Birkenhead,  on  the  marine  engines  of 
the  "290,"  afterwards  the  famous  privateer 
Alabama,  that  he  lost  the  index  finger  of  his 


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right  hand.  The  operations  of  this  privateer 
gave  rise  to  the  famous  Alabama  claim,  England 
paying  this  government  $15,000,000  in  settle- 
ment. In  1867  Mr.  Dickson  came  to  this  coun- 
try, accepting  a  position  in  the  Grant  Locomo- 
tive Works  at  Patterson,  N.  J.  Soon  after  he 
secured  a  position  in  the  C.,  B.  &  Q.  machine 
shops  at  Galesburg,  where  he  remained  for  two 
years,  and  was  afterwards  employed  by  the 
Union  Pacific,  the  Rock  Island,  the  Illinois  Cen- 
tral and  the  Indianapolis,  Bloomington  &  West- 
ern. He  was  employed  in  the  erection  of  the 
Joliet  Steel  Works  from  the  time  work  was 
commenced  until  the  first  rail  was  rolled  in 
1873.  In  1874  he  returned  to  the  C.,  B.  &  Q.  at 
Galesburg,  where  he  remained  until  he  was  ap- 
pointed superintendent  of  water  service  for  the 
company,  with  headquarters  at  Galesburg,  a 
position  which  he  held  for  four  years.  At 
Galesburg  he  took  a  prominent  part  in  public 
affairs  and  was  employed  as  expert  in  the  con- 
struction of  the  Galesburg  water  system.  In 
1888  he  came  to  Quincy  to  accept  his  present 
position  of  general  foreman  for  the  C.,  B.  &  Q. 
Mr.  Dickson  was  appointed  a  member  of  the 
board  of  education  last  year  and  has  taken  an 
active  interest  in  school  affairs,  being  a  strong 
friend  of  popular  education.  Last  spring  he  was 
elected  alderman  from  the  First  Ward  on  the 
republican  ticket  by  a  handsome  majority,  being 
popular  with  the  people  generally. 


WILLIAM  H.  KONANTZ. 
Mr.  William  H.  Konantz  is  a  son  of  one  of  the 
pioneer  residents  of  Quincy,  his  father,  the  late 
Paul  Konantz,  coming  here  from  New  Orleans 
in  1836.  He  was  born  in  this  city,  April  9,  1846, 
and  is  the  oldest  of  twelve  children.  Supple- 
menting his  early  education  in  the  common 
schools  by  attending  evening  school,  he  learned 
the  harness  makers'  trade  with  Bernard  &  Lock- 
wood  and  then  spent  two  years  learning  the 
finest  grades  of  work  in  Chicago.  In  March. 
1876,  with  a  few  hundred  dollars  capital,  he 
opened  a  shop  of  his  own  on  Maine  street,  west 
of  Fourth.  His  business  prospered  from  the 
first.  He  was  an  expert  workman,  capable  of 
supplying  the  most  elegant  coach  and  track  har- 
ness, and  within  five  years  not  only  enjoyed  a 
handsome  local  patronage,  but  was  shipping  to 
other  cities  as  far  west  as  the  Pacific  Coast. 
Once  fairly  established  he  extended  his  opera- 
tions until  he  conducted  one  of  the  most  impor- 
tant wholesale  and  retail  harness  trades  in  this 
section  of  the  country.  Mr.  Konantz  has  held 
an  important  place  in  Masonic  circles,  filling  the 
positions  of  master  of  Lambert  Masonic  lodge 
and  commander  of  El  Aksa  Commandery, 
Knights  Templar.  He  fully  merits  the  enviable 
position  he  occupies  among  Quincy's  representa- 
tive business  men. 


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FRED  P.  TAYLOR. 

Mr.  Fred  P.  Taylor,  the  editor  and  proprietor 
of  The  Journal  of  Industry,  started  life  as  a 
poor  boy,  and  by  his  energy,  unremitting  indus- 
try and  ability  has  made  a  name  for  himself. 
His  father,  William  Thomas  Taylor,  first  came 
to  Quincy  in  1836.  He  was  a  painter  and  was 
in  business  for  a  time  with  Mr.  Letton,  and  put 
the  first  coat  of  paint  on  the  Wells  building. 
He  was  a  soldier  in  the  Mexican  war,  and  won 
distinction  on  the  other  side  of  the  Rio  Grande. 
He  went  south  several  years  before  the  rebellion 
and  after  the  civil  war  broke  out  enlisted  in  the 
confederate  army.  He  was  killed  in  battle  on 
the  Cumberland  River,  and  his  eldest  son  was 
killed  at  the  battle  of  Shiloh. 

Fred  P.  Taylor  was  born  in  Louisville,  Ky., 
March  15,  1858,  and  when  five  years  of  age  came 
to  Quincy  with  his  widowed  mother  and  family. 
As  a  boy  he  worked  in  a  grocery  store,  and 
when  fourteen  years  old  became  an  office  boy  on 
the  Quincy  Herald,  and  there  learned  the  trade 
of  printer.  He  subsequently  worked  on  that 
paper  and  also  on  the  Whig  as  a  journeyman 
printer.  Politically  he  is  a  democrat,  and  early 
took  an  interest  in  politics.  He  was  elected  a 
member  of  the  board  of  supervisors,  and  re- 
elected.  While  serving  his  second  term  on  the 
county  board  in  1885  he  was  elected  to  the  state 
legislature  from  this  district,  and  participated 


in  the  memorable  Logan-Morrison  senatorial 
contest.  January  1,  1887,  he  established  The 
Journal  of  Industry,  and  has  made  it  one  of«the 
most  influential  journals  in  this  section.  He 
stands  high  in  the  councils  of  his  party,  and  his 
influence  is  wide  spread.  He  was  elected  a  mem- 
ber of  the  board  of  supervisors  again  in  the 
spring  of  1899,  although  he  made  no  campaign 
and  did  not  seek  the  place.  He  was  married 
March  18,  1879,  to  Miss  Jennie  Bloom,  and  they 
have  four  children,  three  sons  and  one  daughter. 

HARRIS  SWIMMER. 

For  more  than  thirty  years  ex- Alderman  Har- 
ris Swimmer  has  been  a  prominent  factor  in 
local  political  affairs  and  for  many  years  he  has 
been  widely  known  in  state  and  national  poli- 
tics. In  county,  district  and  state  conventions 
he  has  wielded  commanding  influence  and  has 
taken  prominent  part  in  many  hard  fought 
political  battles.  As  one  of  the  leaders  of  the 
sound  money  democratic  movement  in  Illinois 
in  1896  he  gained  added  political  distinction. 
Mr.  Swimmer  was  born  at  Colmar,  Germany, 
September  22,  1844,  and  the  year  following  came 
to  this  country  with  his  parents.  In  May,  1856, 
he  came  to  Quincy  and  in  1865  established  his 
present  hide  and  wool  business.  Of  late  years 


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lie  has  handled  feathers  extensively  and  Is  now 
the  largest  dealer  in  feathers  in  this  country. 
Single  orders  of  from  one  to  five  car  loads  are 
frequently  received  by  him  and  many  of  the 
leading  eastern  manufacturers  depend  on  his 
house  for  their  supplies.  His  hide  and  wool 
business  has  also  assumed  extensive  propor- 
tions. In  1878  Mr.  Swimmer  was  elected  alder- 
man from  the  Second  Ward  and  served  in  the 
City  Council  for  sixteen  years,  the  longest  con- 
tinuous term  of  service  In  the  history  of  that 
body.  His  comprehensive  knowledge  of  city 
affairs  and  his  constant  attention  to  the  best 
interests  of  the  city  were  of  the  greatest  benefit 
to  the  people.  He  has  held  the  position  of 
United  States  deputy  marshal  for  nine  years, 
having  first  been  appointed  under  President 
Harrison's  administration.  Mr.  Swimmer  was 
a  member  of  the  finance  committee  of  the  Grand 
Lodge,  A.  O.  U.  W.,  for  twelve  years  and  has 
served  on  other  important  committees  of  that 
organization.  He  is  also  ex-president  of  the 
I.  O.  B.  B.,  district  number  six,  comprising  seven 
states.  February  23,  1873,  Mr.  Swimmer  was 
married  to  Miss  Lena  Solomon,  of  St.  Paul,  and 
they  have  two  sons.  Mrs.  Swimmer  shares  the 
honors  with  her  husband  in  well-known  frater- 
nal organizations.  She  is  grand  chief  of  honor 
of  the  Degree  of  Honor,  A.  O.  U.  W.  for  Illinois 
and  is  also  a  member  of  the  finance  committee 
of  the  Superior  Grand  Lodge  of  the  United 
States. 

WILLIAM  EBER. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  is  one  of  the  oldest 
business  men  in  Quincy,  in  point  of  continuous 
operations,  and  is  one  of  the  best  known  seed 
men  in  the  state.  Mr.  William  Eber  was  born 
June  20,  1829,  in  Unterrodach,  Bavaria,  and 
acquired  his  commercial  education  in  his  native 
country.  His  father  was  a  member  of  an  exten- 
sive lumber  firm,  which  floated  lumber  and  log 
rafts  down  the  rivers  Main  and  Rhine,  supply- 
ing Frankfort,  Cologne  and  part  of  Holland 
with  lumber.  After  finishing  his  commercial 
education  in  the  cities  of  Bamberg  and  Nurem- 
berg, Mr.  Eber,  then  a  youth  of  twenty,  decided 
to  come  to  the  United  States,  and  landed  in  New 
York  in  1849.  From  there  he  went  to  Baltimore, 
where  he  found  employment  in  a  store,  and 
remained  for  over  a  year.  'He  then  went  to 
Warren,  Pa.,  where  he  engaged  in  business  and 
remained  for  over  five  years,  leaving  it  in  1855 
for  a  visit  to  Germany.  Warren  is  now  almost 
the  center  of  the  coal  oil  belt,  but  at  that  time 
no  one  dreamed  of  finding  oil  in  quantities. 


On  his  return  to  this  country,  Mr.  Eber  was 
undecided  as  to  whether  to  locate  in  Milwaukee 
or  Quincy,  but  finally  decided  on  this  city,  and 
arrived  here  in  the  fall  of  1856.  He  was  em- 
ployed by  Mr.  Leopold  Arntzen  and  remained 
with  him  until  1863,  when  he  formed  a  copart- 
nership with  Charles  A.  Koencke.  They  estab- 
lished a  general  store,  and  commenced  dealing 
in  seeds.  That  partnership  was  dissolved  in 
1868,  and  Mr.  Eber  continued  the  business  on  his 
own  account,  giving  most  of  his  attention  to 
seeds,  a  business  which  he  has  built  up  to  large 
proportions.  He  was  materially  aided  in  estab- 
lishing his  seed  business  by  Mr.  William 
Stewart  and  by  Quincy's  extensive  market  gard- 
ners.  Later  he  formed  a  partnership  with  Mr. 
E.  C.  Walters,  under  the  firm  name  of  Eber  & 
Walters,  which  continued  until  1884,  when  Mr. 
Walters  went  to  Minneapolis.  Since  that  time 
his  son,  William  H.  Eber,  has  become  interested 
in  the  business,  the  firm  name  being  William 
Eber  &  Son,  and  it  is  known  all  through  the 
western  country.  Mr.  Eber  was  doing  business 
on  Hampshire  street  for  more  than  thirty  years 
without  interruption  until  his  removal  to  the 
present  quarters  at  Sixth  and  Vermont  some 
seven  years  ago. 

Mr.  Eber  is  one  of  the  active  promoters  of 
the  beet  sugar  industry  in  Illinois,  ai^J  is  one 
of  the  commissioners  of  the  Illinois  Beet  Sugar 
Association. 


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FRANK  W.  OSBORN. 

Mr.  Frank  W.  Osborn,  secretary  and  treasurer 
of  the  Quincy  Coal  Company,  is  one  of  the  most 
prominent  of  the  younger  business  men  of  the 
city.  He  is  also  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the 
Farmington  Coal  Company,  the  business  of  the 
companies  with  which  he  is  identified  aggre- 
gating a  very  heavy  volume  and  covering  a 
wide  extent  of  territory.  This  business  em- 
braces coal  mining  on  an  extensive  scale,  as 
well  as  dealing  in  coal  in  heavy  quantities.  The 
Quincy  Coal  Company  was  the  first  to  supply 
the  Quincy  market  and  its  operations  have  been 
extended  to  many  other  cities.  Mr.  Osborn  was 
born  in  Quincy,  August  24,  1867.  He  is  a  son  of 
Mr.  Charles  C.  Osborn  and  a  grandson  of  the 
late  H.  S.  Osborn,  one  of  the  early  settlers  of 
Quincy  and  for  many  years  one  of  the  foremost 
business  men.  After  completing  his  common 
school  education,  he  graduated  from  the  law 
department  of  Chaddock  College,  being  awarded 
the  gold  medal  for  the  best  thesis.  He  com- 
menced work  for  the  Quincy  Coal  Company  in 
1884,  being  advanced  rapidly  until  he  was 
elected  to  the  responsible  positions  which  he 
now  holds.  A  clean  cut  business  man,  of  quick 
perception  and  capable  of  handling  any  amount 
of  detail,  he  is  well  calculated  to  bring  about 
success.  Of  elegant  address,  he  is  genial  and 
affable  and  is  popular  in  social  as  well  as  in 
business  circles.  Mr.  Osborn  has  always  been 


active  in  Sunday  school  work  and  is  at  present 
assistant  superintendent  of  the  Vermont  street 
M.  E.  Sunday  school,  one  of  the  largest  in  the 
city. 

HARVEY  CHATTEN. 

In  architecture  in  this  section  the  name  of  Mr. 
Harvey  Chatten  takes  prominent  rank.  Many 
of  the  more  notable  buildings  built  in  Quincy  in 
recent  years  are  substantial  monuments  to  his 
artistic  skill.  Mr.  Chatten  was  born  in  this  city 
in  1853  and  is  a  son  of  the  late  B.  I.  Chatten,  for 
so  many  years  the  honored  civil  engineer.  In- 
heriting his  father's  artistic  ability  as  well  as 
his  sterling  qualities,  he  early  decided  on  his  life 
work,  securing  his  training  in  the  office  of  the 
late  Robert  Bunce  and  in  the  offices  of  promi- 
nent Boston  architects.  He  succeeded  to  much 
of  the  business  of  Mr.  Bunce  and  was  not  long 
in  establishing  a  substantial  patronage.  Among 
the  more  important  buildings  designed  by  Mr. 
Chatten  are  the  Quincy  High  School,  Stern 
building,  the  elegant  residences  of  Mr.  R.  F. 
Newcomb,  Mr.  T.  C.  Poling,  Judge  Carter,  Prof. 
D.  L.  Musselman,  Mr.  J.  N.  Wellman,  Mr.  George 
H.  Stahl,  Mr.  J.  B.  Ellis  and  the  handsome  City 
Hall  building.  He  also  made  the  plans  for 
remodeling  the  Newcomb  block,  Rogers  block, 
Powers  block  and  many  other  business  houses. 
Mr.  Chatten  is  also  widely  known  in  musical 
circles,  his  magnificent  bass  voice  ranking  as 
one  of  the  finest  in  the  entire  country. 


REPRESENTATIVE  MEN  AND  HOMES. 


WICK  ANDERSON. 

Promptness  in  taking  advantage  of  opportuni- 
ties very  often  leads  to  immediate  and  signal 
success,  as  is  fairly  demonstrated  by  the  experi- 
ence of  Mr.  Wick  Anderson,  of  the  Union  Busi- 
ness College.  He  was  born  on  a  farm  near 
Newark,  Knox  county,  Missouri,  February  3, 
1869.  His  early  education  was  obtained  at  an 
old  log  school  house,  called  by  the  scholars 
"Brush  College."  He  then  returned  to  farm 
work,  but  being  ambitious  to  secure  a  thorough 
education  he  went  to  college  in  1885  and  gradu- 
ated with  honors.  His  natural  ability  for  com- 
mercial college  work  having  manifested  itself  he 
took  complete  courses  in  three  leading  business 
colleges,  and  for  two  years  did  active  work  in  a 
business  office  as  bookkeeper  and  stenographer. 
He  then  taught  in  a  business  college  in  this  city 
for  four  years  and  in  March,  1896,  seeing  an 
opening  for  a  progressive,  thoroughly  equipped 
commercial  school  in  Quincy,  he  founded  the 
Union  Business  College  and  School  of  Short- 
hand, Typewriting  and  Telegraphy,  in  the  New- 
comb  block.  The  beginning  was  small  but  the 
standard  was  high,  and  that  the  opportunity 
was  well  taken  is  demonstrated  by  the  fact  that 
this  college,  in  three  years,  has  grown  to  occupy 
three  floors  of  this  spacious  building  and  num- 
bers several  hundred  students.  It  is  thoroughly 
equipped  in  every  department,  the  faculty 
embraces  prominent  and  efficient  instructors 
and  it  is  now  generally  recognized  as  one  of  the 
leading  commercial  colleges  of  the  country.  Mr. 
Anderson  is  the  secretary  and  business  manager 


and  has  the  satisfaction  of  having  achieved  sig- 
nal success  in  an  important  department  of  edu- 
cational work. 

EDWARD  W.  TROWBRIDGE. 

Mr.  Edward  W.  Trowbridge  was  born  in  this 
city  April  15,  1860.  After  completing  his  com- 
mon school  education  he  attended  commercial 
college  and  early  developed  a  natural  ability  for 
active  business  affairs.  His  first  position  was 
that  of  shipping  clerk  in  Buehrer's  wholesale 
confectionery  and  he  then  took  charge  of  the 
business  office  of  his  father,  Mr.  Watson  Trow- 
bridge. In  1880  he  accepted  the  position  of  book- 
keeper for  Joseph  &  Nelke,  which  he  held  for 
two  years  and  then  represented  that  firm  on 
the  road  for  two  years.  In  1884  he  established 
his  present  coal  business,  which  he  has  devel- 
oped until  he  has  become  one  of  the  leading  coal 
dealers  of  the  city.  Prompt  and  carefully  atten- 
tive to  the  interests  of  his  patrons,  a  tireless 
worker  and  one  of  the  most  energetic  of  the 
younger  business  men  of  Quincy,  he  is  well  cal- 
culated to  succeed  in  any  undertaking.  At  his 
home  on  Locust  Boulevard,  he  also  conducts  an 
extensive  dairy  business.  Mr.  Trowbridge  is  one 
of  the  directors  of  the  Park  and  Boulevard  Asso- 
ciation and  in  this  important  work  as  well  as  ir 
other  public  enterprises  he  has  been  an  active 
factor.  He  was  married  in  November,  1887,  to 
Miss  Lucy  Wells  Benneson  and  they  have  two 
sons  and  one  daughter. 


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JOHN  BATSCHY. 

Mr.  John  Batschy,  the  well-known  architect, 
was  born  in  Filisur,  Switzerland,  March  8,  1855. 
After  acquiring  a  thorough  common  school  edu- 
cation he  developed  a  natural  talent  for  archi- 
tecture and  spent  several  years  in  the  noted 
schools  of  design  at  Zurich  and  Winterthur.  In 
1884  he  came  to  this  country  and  after  remain- 
ing two  years  in  St.  Louis  located  in  Quincy. 
Building  operations  were  active,  his  ability  was 
promptly  recognized  and  a  prosperous  business 
was  quickly  established.  Mr.  Batschy  is  the 
architect  of  many  of  the  more  prominent  build- 
ings in  Quincy,  including  the  Soldiers'  Home 
buildings,  Woodland  Orphans'  Home,  the  Mus- 
selman  building,  the  largest  business  block  in 
the  city,  the  Schott  office  building,  the  George 
Ertel  block,  the  large  buildings  for  the  pump 
department  of  the  Gardner  Governor  Company, 
the  Quincy  show  case  works,  J.  J.  Flynn  &  Co.'s 
bottling  works,  the  Washington  and  Irving  pub- 
lic school  buildings,  engine  houses  numbers  four 
and  seven  and  a  number  of  fine  residences.  The 
Wells  office  building  was  remodeled  under  his 
direction  and  he  made  the  plans  for  the  exten- 
sive addition.  He  also  designed  the  elegant 
High  School  building  and  the  Odd  Fellows' 
Temple  at  Fort  Madison,  Iowa,  the  large  new 
hotel  at  Macomb  and  other  notable  public  build- 
ings and  business  structures  in  neighboring  cit- 
ies. His  genius  as  an  architect  is  unquestioned. 


CHARLES  OEHLMAN. 

Mr.  Charles  Oehlman  was  born  in  Hanover, 
Germany,  July  21,  1849,  coming  to  this  country 
with  his  parents  in  1852.  His  father,  Dr.  Henry 
Oehlman,  located  in  Quincy  and  practiced  medi- 
cine here  up  to  the  time  of  his  death  in  1891. 
On  July  1,  1864,  Charles  did  his  first  work  in  the 
drug  business,  securing  a  position  with  Sellner 
&  Webber.  He  remained  with  this  store  through 
several  changes  of  ownership  for  eleven  years, 
becoming  an  experienced  chemist  and  pharma- 
cist. In  1875  he  formed  a  partnership  with  Dr. 
Durant,  who  had  bought  out  the  drug  business 
of  A.  Basse,  Sr.,  of  which  Mr.  Oehlman  was  then 
manager,  and  the  firm  of  Durant  &  Oehlman 
continued  for  thirteen  years.  Dental  supplies 
had  been  added  to  the  drug  trade  and  in  1888 
Mr.  Oehlman  established  the  Quincy  Dental 
Depot,  at  514  Maine  street.  In  1891  he  removed 
to  his  present  quarters  on  the  east  side  of  Wash- 
ington Park,  where  he  has  built  up  a  prosperous 
and  steadily  increasing  business.  His  dental 
depot  is  one  of  the  most  prominent  in  this  sec- 
tion of  country  and  the  dentists  throughout  the 
west  have  become  his  patrons.  Mr.  Oehlman  is 
a  responsible,  progressive  business  man  and 
deserves  the  success  which  he  has  gained.  He 
was  married  at  Maryville,  Mo.,  December  19, 
1878,  to  Miss  Anna  Struck,  and  they  have  one 
daughter. 


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JOSEPH  H.  VANDENBOOM. 

Mr.  Joseph  H.  VandenBoom  was  born  in  this 
city,  August  6,  1854.  His  father,  the  late  C.  A. 
VandenBoom,  was  one  of  the  old  and  promi- 
nent residents  of  Quincy,  coming  here  in  1849. 
He  was  a  leading  pork  packer  for  many  years 
and  was  also  the  founder  of  the  VandenBoom 
chair  factory.  He  died  in  1885,  leaving  an  hon- 
ored name.  Mr.  Joseph  VandenBoom,  after 
receiving  a  comprehensive  commercial  educa- 
tion, was  employed  in  the  Ricker  bank  for  three 
years  and  was  afterwards  bookkeeper  for  the 
pork  packing  firm  of  VandenBoom  &  Blomer.  In 
1875  he  formed  a  copartnership  with  Mr.  Moller 
and  the  present  lumber  business  of  Moller  & 
VandenBoom  was  established  where  their  main 
office  is  still  located,  on  Vermont  street,  be- 
tween Sixth  and  Seventh  streets.  The  business 
grew  very  rapidly  and  as  additional  room  has 
been  required  three  other  yards  have  been 
established,  one  on  Third  and  Vermont  streets, 
another  on  Third  and  Broadway  and  a  whole- 
sale yard  on  Quincy  Bay.  This  firm  is  now 
among  the  most  extensive  lumber  dealers  on  the 
Mississippi  River.  Mr.  VandenBoom  served 
four  years  in  the  City  Council  and  was  a  promi- 
nent and  influential  member  of  that  body.  In 
all  business  affairs  he  is  prompt  and  reliable 
and  is  one  of  Quincy's  representative  men.  He 
was  married  in  1876  to  Miss  Amelia  Kaeltz,  who 
died  four  years  later.  In  1885  he  married  her 


sister,  Miss  Julia  Kaeltz.  He  has  one  son  and 
one  daughter  living,  his  son  now  being  a  stu- 
dent at  a  military  school  at  Buffalo,  N.  Y. 


J.  HENRY  RASTER  T. 

The  career  of  Mr.  J.  Henry  Bastert  is  a  fair 
illustration  of  what  push  and  energy  will 
accomplish,  as  in  less  than  five  years  he  has 
established  and  built  up  the  leading  general 
insurance  business  of  the  city.  His  success  is 
clearly  of  his  own  making.  Born  on  a  farm  in 
Hancock  county,  April  5,  1866,  he  started  out  for 
himself  early  in  life,  filling  the  position  of 
engineer  at  the  old  Aetna  Iron  works  when  thir- 
teen years  of  age.  In  1883  he  accepted  a  posi- 
tion with  the  German  Insurance  Company  as 
clerk.  Soon  manifesting  special  qualifications 
for  this  line  of  work  he  was  promoted  to  the 
position  of  bookkeeper  and  afterwards  elected 
secretary,  an  office  which  he  held  up  to  the  time 
the  company  voluntarily  went  out  of  business 
in  1894.  Mr.  Bastert  closed  up  the  affairs  of  the 
company  and  wound  up  its  extensive  business 
to  the  satisfaction  of  all  of  the  stockholders. 
Then  he  engaged  in  the  general  insurance  busi- 
ness, his  experience  in  passing  on  and  placing 
important  risks  and  in  making  adjustments 
being  of  the  highest  advantage  to  him  and  to  his 
patrons.  Mr.  Bastert  was  an  alternate  delegate 
to  the  republican  national  convention  at  St. 
Louis  in  1896  and  in  political  and  general  busi- 
ness affairs  is  active  and  progressive. 


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JOHN  A.  MYERS. 

Mr.  John  W.  Myers,  president  of  the  Reliable 
Incubator  and  Brooder  Company,  was  born  on  a 
farm  near  Novelty,  Mo.,  January  17,  1864.  Com- 
ing to  Quincy  with  his  parents  at  an  early  age 
he  received  a  fair  common  school  education. 
His  first  position  was  that  of  bell  boy  at  the  old 
Quincy  House,  but  he  commenced  work  for 
Clark  &  Morgan  when  quite  young  and 
remained  with  them  for  over  fifteen  years.  He 
was  a  hard  worker  and  a  first-class  salesman. 
In  1879  he  became  interested  in  the  poultry 
business,  in  a  small  way  at  first,  but  gradually 
increasing  his  poultry  yards  until  they  became 
of  considerable  importance.  His  first  venture 
in  the  incubator  business  was  with  the  Reliable 
incubator,  in  which  his  brother,  Clarence,  was 
interested,  in  1893,  when  he  resigned  his  place 
at  Clark  &  Morgan's.  In  his  new  business  he 
threw  his  unlimited  energy  and  every  resource 
he  could  command.  The  machine  was  success- 
ful and  Mr.  Myers  had  every  confidence  that  it 
would  meet  with  extensive  sale.  It  was  adver- 
tised judiciously  and  exhibited  at  the  World's 
Fair  and  all  of  the  great  poultry  shows,  where 
it  was  awarded  highest  honors.  As  a  result  of 
the  World's  Fair  exhibit  it  is  now  sold  all  over 
the  world.  The  business  has  been  developed 
largely  and  very  rapidly  and  the  officers  of  the 
company  have  reason  to  feel  proud  of  their  suc- 


cess. Mr.  Myers  was  married  in  1885  to  Agnes 
Reynolds,  daughter  of  Henry  Reynolds  and 
granddaughter  of  Frederick  O'Connor,  one  of 
the  early  residents  of  Quincy.  He  has  four 
daughters  and  one  son.  An  enthusiast  in  what- 
ever he  undertakes,  Mr.  Myers  is  known  as  one 
of  Quincy's  most  active  business  men,  full  of 
enterprise  and  absolutely  reliable. 

CLARENCE  A.  MYERS. 

Mr.  Clarence  A.  Myers,  secretary  and  treas- 
urer of  the  Reliable  Incubator  Company,  was 
born  in  Dunkirk,  N.  Y.,  September  26,  1853.  Two 
years  later  lie  came  to  Missouri  with  his  parents 
and  in  1865  located  in  this  city.  His  father, 
Mr.  A.  O.  Myers,  who  is  now  nearly  seventy 
years  of  age,  was  for  a  long  time  a  leading 
builder  here.  He  built  or  superintended  the 
construction  of  the  Adams  county  court  house: 
Hotel  Lamar,  Lesem  block,  Kespohl  block, 
Union  block,  St.  Mary's  Hospital,  McBain 
block,  Kingsbaker  block,  Meyer  block  and  other 
buildings  in  Quincy,  and  also  the  depot  build- 
ings on  seventy  miles  of  the  Quincy,  Missouri  & 
Pacific  Railway  and  the  bridge  work  on  thirty- 
five  miles  of  the  Jacksonville  &  Southeastern 
Railway;  also  the  Bloomfield,  Iowa,  court  house, 
Smith  packing  house  at  East  Atchison,  Garth's 


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forty-room  house  at  Hannibal  and  other  impor- 
tant buildings  in  other  cities.  When  fifteen 
years  of  age  Clarence  began  the  carpenter  trade. 
His  honored  mother  'died  in  1863  and  his  father 
was  in  the  army;  he  was  therefore  obliged  to 
contribute  to  the  support  of  the  family.  For 
six  years  he  followed  carpentering,  working  on 
the  court  house,  Tremont  Hotel,  the  McBain  and 
King  buildings  and  on  other  large  structures. 
In  1877  he  accepted  a  position  with  Clark  & 
Morgan,  remaining  with  them  seventeen  years. 
In  1892  he  engaged  in  the  incubator  business  in 
a  small  way.  The  business  prospered,  but  on 
February  20,  1894,  their  factory  was  entirely 
destroyed  by  fire.  The  loss  was  a  severe  one, 
but  the  business  was  at  once  resumed  and  with 
the  wide  reputation  already  established  for  the 
machines,  prosperity  quickly  returned.  Last 
year  the  Reliable  Incubator  and  Brooder  Com- 
pany occupied  their  present  building,  on  Second 
and  Vermont  streets,  built  expressly  for  them, 
and  they  now  have  one  of  the  largest  incubator 
factories  in  the  world. 

BENJAMIN  G.  VASEN. 

For  nearly  twenty-five  years  Mr.  Benjamin  G, 
Vasen  has  been  identified  with  the  building 
association  interests  of  Quincy,  and  in  this  im- 
portant branch  of  business  few  men  in  the  west 
are  more  widely  or  favorably  known.  He  was 
one  of  the  organizers  of  the  United  States 
League  of  Local  Building  and  Loan  Associations 
in  1893  and  held  the  office  of  secretary  for  two 
years,  declining  re-election  for  the  third  term. 
Since  June,  1890,  he  has  been  secretary  of  the 
Building  Association  League  of  Illinois  and  has 
been  instrumental  in  shaping  the  present  laws 
governing  these  institutions.  Mr.  Vasen  was 
born  in  Philadelphia,  July  2,  1857,  coming  tc 
Quincy  with  his  parents  ten  years  later.  He 
received  his  early  education  in  the  public 
schools  and  also  took  a  thorough  course  in 
bookkeeping  and  mathematics  at  commercial 
college.  When  thirteen  years  old  he  accepted  a 
position  with  Hirsch  &  Vasen  and  was  after- 
wards bookkeeper  and  cashier  at  St.  Joseph 
Mo.,  for  the  branch  house  of  J.  Jonas  &  Co.  In 
January,  1875,  he  returned  to  Quincy  to  accept 
a  position  with  Morton  &  Nichols  and  took 
charge  of  the  building  association  and  loan  de- 
partments of  their  business,  to  which  he  suc- 
ceeded. He  started  his  present  insurance,  real 
estate  and  loan  business  in  1881  and  in  1893 
removed  to  his  present  spacious  and  handsome 
quarters  at  Fifth  and  Maine  streets,  the  rooms 


occupied  for  many  years  by  the  banking  house 
of  L.  &  C.  H.  Bull.  Mr.  Vasen  was  the  organ- 
izer and  the  first  secretary  of  the  People's  Sav- 
ings, Loan  and  Building  Association  in  Novem- 
ber, 1883,  and  in  December,  1885,  was  elected 
secretary  of  the  Quincy  Building  and  Home- 
stead Association,  both  of  which  offices  he  still 
holds.  He  had  been  acting  as  assistant  secre- 
tary of  the  later  association  since  January,  1875. 
A  close  student  in  building  and  loan  association 
matters  he  is  considered  authority  in  this  im- 
portant branch  of  finance.  Mr.  Vasen  has  han- 
dled for  the  two  associations  of  which  he  is  sec- 
retary nearly  $5,000,000  without  a  single  loss 
and  at  a  considerable  profit  to  the  stockholders 
He  is  an  expert  accountant,  an  experienced 
insurance  man  and  a  responsible  citizen. 


MARSHALL  TR  A  VILLA. 

Mr.  Marshall  Travilla  was  born  in  Quincy, 
February  3,  1856.  His  father  was  one  of  the 
early  residents  of  the  city,  coming  here  in  1848 
and  up  to  the  time  of  his  death  in  1872  was  en- 
gaged in  contracting,  many  of  the  prominent 
residences  of  Quincy  having  been  built  under 
his  direction.  He  was  a  careful,  painstaking 
workman  and  bore  an  enviable  reputation  in  his 
business.  The  son  learned  his  father's  trade, 


REPRESENTATIVE  MEN  AND  HOMES. 


working  as  a  carpenter  until  1881,  when  he 
secured  a  position  as  traveling  salesman  for  the 
Channon-Emery  Stove  Company.  On  the  road 
he  was  very  successful,  commanding  an  excel- 
lent trade.  In  1889  he  engaged  in  business  for 
himself,  opening  his  present  stove  store  and 
large  tin  shop  on  the  west  side  of  Washington 
Park.  Mr.  Travilla  was  one  of  the  first  to  put 
the  new  low-priced  sheet  iron  stove  on  the  mar- 
ket and  is  now  making  and  selling  several 
thousand  each  season,  having  built  up  a  large 
and  constantly  increasing  trade.  Personally  he 
is  like  his  father,  quiet,  reserved  and  closely 
attentive  to  business,  absolutely  reliable  in  all 
things.  He  was  married  May  29,  1878,  to  Miss 
Lillie  Shontz,  of  this  city,  and  they  have  one 
son  and  one  daughter. 


FRANK  TUBBESING. 

The  name  of  Mr.  Frank  Tubbesing,  the  archi- 
tect, is  a  familiar  one  in  Quincy,  and  profession- 
ally it  ranks  among  the  best.  He  was  born  in 
this  city  April  6,  1854,  and  Quincy  has  always 
been  his  home.  His  parents  were  Frank  H.  and 
Barbara  Habel  Tubbesing,  who  came  here  in 
1851.  Mr.  Tubbesing's  father  died  in  1865,  and 
at  the  age  of  17  he  was  apprenticed  to  W.  A. 
Williams,  at  that  time  a  prominent  contractor 
and  builder.  Mr.  Tubbesing  learned  the  carpen- 
ter's trade,  and  then  entered  the  office  of 


Robert  Bunce,  at  that  time  one  of  the  most 
prominent  architects  of  the  west,  as  a  draughts- 
man. He  studied  diligently,  and  in  1878  opened 
an  office  of  his  own.  His  practical  knowledge 
of  building,  and  his  talent  for  architecture, 
broadened  and  deepened  by  conscientious  study, 
soon  brought  him  to  the  front,  and  he  now 
ranks  as  one  of  the  leading  architects  of  this 
section.  Many  public  and  private  buildings  in 
Quincy  and  vicinity  are  the  monuments  of  his 
skill  and  genius.  He  made  the  plans  for  the 
Ricker  National  Bank  building,  the  Tenk  block, 
the  Madison  school  building,  the  great  building 
on  the  county  farm,  and  many  other  public 
structures  and  private  residences,  which  are  an 
adornment  to  the  neighborhood  and  models  of 
convenience  of  arrangement.  He  was  married 
April  6,  1875,  to  Miss  Hannah  Pellman,  whose 
father  was  killed  in  the  civil  war.  They  have 
one  son,  Frank  Tubbesing,  Jr. 

FREDERICK  THUMAN. 

Alderman  Thuman  was  born  in  Hanover,  Ger- 
many, January  20,  1839,  his  father,  Judge 
August  Thuman  occupying  a  prominent  position 
in  his  native  city.  The  son  was  educated  under 
private  tutors  until  he  entered  the  university 
preparatory  school.  When  fifteen  years  old  he 
concluded  to  seek  his  own  fortune  in  this  coun- 
try and  commenced  life  on  his  own  responsi- 
bility as  a  clerk  in  New  York  City.  He  then 
went  into  the  wall  paper  trade,  but  in  1858  en- 
listed in  the  navy  under  Captain  James  Finlay 
Schenck.  One  year  of  service  proved  sufficient, 
however,  and  he  engaged  in  the  wall  paper 
business  in  St.  Louis.  When  the  war  broke  out 
he  was  one  of  the  first  to  volunteer  in  the  three 
months  service,  joining  the  Third  Missouri  In- 
fantry May  2,  1861.  On  being  mustered  out  the 
following  August  he  immediately  reinlisted  in 
the  First  Missouri  Infantry,  under  Colonel 
Frank  Blair  and  was  in  Grant's  army  in  its 
great  campaigns  in  the  south.  After  serving 
nearly  three  years  he  was  mustered  out  at  Jack- 
son, Tenn.,  a  compound  fracture  of  his  leg  dis- 
qualifying him  for  the  army.  Returning  to  St. 
Louis  he  was  commissioned  a  notary  public  by 
Governor  Fletcher  and  engaged  in  the  collection 
of -pension  claims  and  back  bounties.  In  1866 
he  went  back  to  the  wall  paper  business  and  ac- 
cumulated a  handsome  property.  Ten  years 
later  business  misfortunes  having  been  encoun- 
tered by  reason  of  his  generosity  in  assisting 
pretended  friends,  he  located  in  this  city,  com- 
mencing his  work  over  again  in  the  wall  paper 


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trade.  He  was  so  successful  that  in  1892  he 
built  his  present  large  business  block,  adding  a 
complete  stock  of  housekeeping  goods  of  every 
description.  In  1898  he  was  elected  alderman 
from  the  Fourth  Ward.  Mr.  Thuman  has  gained 
notable  distinction  in  fraternal  organizations 
with  which  he  is  identified.  He  is  past  grand 
commander  of  the  Select  Knights  of  America 
and  the  present  grand  recorder  of  that  organiza- 
tion. He  is  also  past  master  workman  of  Hum- 
boldt  lodge,  A.  O.  U.  W.;  past  president  of 
Peerless  lodge,  I.  O.  M.  A.,  and  past  master  of 
Lambert  Masonic  lodge.  He  was  married  in  St. 
Louis  in  1860  to  Miss  Margaret  Ferguson  and 
has  two  daughters  and  two  sons,  who  are  asso 
ciated  with  him  in  business. 

BYROM  WHITFIELD. 

Mr.  Byrom  Whitfield  comes  of  one  of  the 
pioneer  families  of  North  Carolina,  both  his 
father  and  mother  having  been  born  in  that 
state.  His  great  grandfather  was  a  gunmaker 
in  London  and  Mr.  Whitfleld  now  has  a  gun 
made  by  him  many  years  ago.  Mr.  Whitfield 
was  born  in  Nash  county,  North  Carolina,  and 
when  five  years  of  age  his  parents  located  at 
Effingham,  111.,  where  the  boy  was  given  a  com- 
prehensive education.  When  he  was  seventeen 
he  went  into  the  drug  store  of  Dr.  J.  G.  McCoy 


to  learn  the  business,  remaining  there  six  years. 
He  then  accepted  a  position  with  C.  H.  Crane, 
at  Michigan  City,  Ind.,  as  prescription  clerk, 
which  he  held  until  failing  health  compelled 
him  to  seek  outdoor  employment.  Returning 
to  Effingham  he  went  into  the  insurance  and 
loan  business  and  in  March,  1876,  accepted  the 
position  ol  deputy  county  clerk  of  Efflnghara 
county,  which  he  held  nearly  seven  years.  De- 
ciding to  return  to  the  drug  business  he  came  to 
Quincy  March  1,  1883,  but  failing  to  find  any 
drug  store  for  sale  that  was  satisfactory  or  a 
desirable  location  for  a  new  store  he  accepted  a 
position  with  D.  S.  Cherry,  druggist,  308  Hamp- 
shire street.  In  July,  1883,  he  passed  the  exami- 
nation of  the  state  board  of  pharmacy  in  Chi- 
cago and  received  a  certificate  as  a  registered 
pharmacist,  the  state  pharmacy  law  having 
been  adopted  while  he  was  out  of  business.  Two 
years  later  work  on  the  present  government 
building  was  commenced  and  Mr.  Whitfield  con- 
cluded that  a  drug  store  near  the  new  postoffice 
ought  to  do  well.  In  April,  1885,  he  leased  his 
present  store  and  his  business  has  been  success- 
ful from  the  day  his  doors  were  opened.  Mr. 
Whitfield  is  an  experienced  druggist  and  phar- 
macist. He  has  devoted  his  attention  very 
closely  to  business  and  conducts  one  of  the  most 
inviting  as  well  as  one  of  the  most  prosperous 
drug  stores  in  Quincy. 


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REPRESENTATIVE  MEN  AND  HOMES. 


H.  F.  LUMMIS. 

Mr.  H.  F.  Lummis,  secretary  and  treasurer  of 
the  Lummis  Implement  Company,  is  a  son  of 
Mr.  Joseph  Lummis,  of  Gilmer  Township,  one 
of  the  oldest  and  most  prominent  residents  of 
the  county.  His  father  came  to  this  county  from 
Ohio  in  1844  and  held  the  office  of  county  treas- 
urer in  1868-9.  His  mother  is  a  daughter  of  Mr. 
John  Lawless,  who  came  to  Adams  county  in 
1835.  Mr.  H.  F.  Lummis  was  born  on  the  home 
farm  October  25,  1856.  After  completing  the 
graded  school  he  attended  Chaddock  College, 
commercial  college  and  the  Illinois  Normal  Uni- 
versity. He  then  taught  school  for  seven  years. 
In  1885  he  decided  to  engage  in  commercial 
business  in  Quincy  and  the  agricultural  imple- 
ment firm  of  Schafer,  Lummis  &  Co.  was  organ- 
ized, afterwards  changed  to  Lummis,  Rump  & 
Co.,  Lummis,  Earhart  &  Co.,  and  in  December, 
1895,  the  Lummis  Implement  Company  was 
incorporated.  The  following  spring  the  com- 
pany occupied  their  present  quarters  on  Sixth 
avenue,  the  largest  and  best  arranged  agricul- 
tural implement  house  in  the  city.  Retaining 
a  deep  interest  in  the  public  schools,  Mr.  Lum- 
mis was  appointed  a  member  of  the  board  of 
education  in  1897.  He  is  chairman  of  the  com- 
mittee on  buildings  and  grounds  and  a  member 
of  the  committee  on  rules  and  the  committee  on 
teachers.  To  this  work  he  has  brought  his  ripe 


experience  in  school  affairs  and  is  one  of  the 
most  active  and  valuable  members  of  the  board. 
In  business  he  has  met  with  the  success  that 
comes  from  strict  integrity  and  sterling  quali- 
ties. 

JOHN  J.  FLYNN. 

Mr.  John  J.  Flynn,  who  conducts  one  of  the 
leading  bottling  works  for  carbonated  waters  in 
the  west,  has  built  up  his  extensive  and  impor- 
tant enterprise  from  a  very  small  beginning 
and  against  odds  which  would  have  discouraged 
most  men.  He  was  born  at  Blackstone,  Wor- 
cester county,  Massachusetts,  April  9,  1854,  and 
was  early  obliged  to  contribute  to  the  family 
support.  When  ten  years  old  he  commenced 
working  in  a  cotton  mill,  continuing  until  he 
decided  to  come  west,  in  1874,  locating  in  this 
city.  After  taking  a  complete  commercial  col- 
lege course  he  commenced  making  spruce  and 
root  beer,  for  which  he  found  ready  sale  and  as 
soon  as  his  limited  capital  would  admit  he 
began  bottling  beer.  In  1881  the  present  soda 
water  business  was  established,  Mr.  Flynn 
devoting  himself  to  the  study  of  every  feature  of 
chemistry  that  enters  into  the  production  of 
carbonated  waters.  Absolute  purity  was  the  end 
at  which  he  aimed.  Other  carbonated  waters 


REPRESENTATIVE  MEN  AND  HOMES. 


were  added  to  the  business  from  time  to  time, 
the  demand  increasing  very  rapidly  and  the 
trade  being  steadily  extended.  The  present 
model  establishment  was  built,  filters,  distilled 
water  and  every  modern  improvement  has  been 
introduced  and  Mr.  Flynn  is  now  at  the  head  of 
a  most  important  business.  He  is  a  safe,  con- 
servative business  man,  genial  and  public  spir- 
ited, popular  and  universally  respected  in  the 
business  community.  Mr.  Flynn  was  married 
in  1877  to  Miss  Mary  E.  Larkin,  of  this  city. 
They  have  two  sons  and  one  daughter,  theii 
eldest  son  being  a  student  at  Barnes'  Medical 
College,  St.  Louis.  Their  home  in  Park  Place 
is  one  of  the  most  beautiful  in  that  desirable 
residence  section  of  the  city. 


JACOB  F.  DAUGHERTY. 

Mr.  Jacob  F.  Daugherty,  one  of  the  leading 
undertakers  and  embalmers  in  this  section  of 
the  state,  has  lived  in  Adams  county  since  early 
boyhood.  He  was  born  in  Westmoreland 
county,  Pennsylvania,  near  Pittsburg,  March  10, 
1840.  His  father,  Michael  Daugherty,  was  of 
Scotch  descent,  and  his  mother,  Elizabeth 
(Funk)  Daugherty,  of  German  parentage.  They 
came  to  Illinois  in  1851,  Jacob  being  then  a  boy 
of  eleven,  and  settled  on  a  farm  in  Ursa  town- 
ship, Adams  county,  where  he  soon  became  one 
of  the  most  substantial  and  prosperous  farmers 
of  the  county.  He  owned  400  acres  of  fertile 
land,  all  improved  and  cultivated,  and  was  one 
of  the  most  prominent  citizens  of  the  township. 
He  was  a  man  of  sound  business  judgment,  en- 
terprising and  energetic,  and  conducted  his 
farm  with  the  greatest  success.  He  died  in  1892, 
regretted  by  all  who  knew  him.  Mrs.  Daugh- 
erty survives,  and  is  well  preserved  both  in 
mind  and  body. 

Jacob  F.  Daugherty  received  a  good  common 
school  education,  and  remained  on  the  farm 
until  he  was  thirty  years  of  age,  when  he  came 
to  Quincy  and  embarked  in  the  livery  business. 
He  was  successful,  but  left  it  in  1876  to  engage 
in  undertaking  and  embalming.  To  this  he 
brought  a  thorough  and  comprehensive  knowl- 
edge of  the  art  of  embalming  and  a  personality 
which  has  endeared  him  to  the  thousands  of 
persons  who  have  called  upon,  him  in  the  hour 
of  their  bereavement.  In  the  twenty-five  years 
he  has  been  in  the  business  he  has  buried  over 
3,000  persons,  and  as  an  embalmer  he  has  no 
superior  in  the  west. 

Mr.  Daugherty  was  married  in  1862  to  Miss 
Louise  Turner,  the  daughter  of  John  Turner, 


one  of  the  prominent  citizens  of  this  county. 
Six  children  have  blessed  their  union— Mrs.  B. 
F.  Porter,  Mrs.  Anson  M.  Brown,  Mrs.  Charles 
Brown,  of  Phoenix,  Arizona,  Grace,  Leroy  and 
Arthur. 

Mr.  Daugherty's  office  and  undertaking  rooms 
are  at  115  Sixth  avenue  North.  He  is  also 
owner  of  a  large  granite  and  marble  business. 
He  and  Mrs.  Daugherty  are  members  of  the 
Vermont  Street  Baptist  church,  and  he  has  been 
one  of  the  trustees.  He  is  also  a  member  of 
the  Knights  of  Pythias  and  the  Royal  Arcanum. 

L.  M.  SCHMITT. 

For  more  than  thirty-five  years  Mr.  L.  M. 
Schmitt  has  been  identified  with  the  drug  trade 
of  Qufncy.  He  was  born  in  this  city  in  1848. 
His  father,  Mr.  Leonard  Schmitt,  was  one  of  the 
pioneer  residents  of  Quincy,  coming  here  in 
1838,  and  he  was  widely  and  favorably  known 
to  all  of  the  early  residents  of  the  city.  In  1862 
Mr.  L.  M.  Schmitt  went  into  the  drug  store  of 
Doway  &  Morton  and  two  years  later  secured 
a  position  with  Rogers  &  Malone.  For  eighteen 
years  he  remained  with  this  house,  through 
various  changes  of  ownership,  having  become 
an  experienced  pharmacist  and  chemist  and  also 
holding  responsible  positions  in  the  business 


REPRESENTATIVE  MEN  AND  HOMES. 


office.  In  1882  he  took  an  interest  in  the  whole- 
sale drug  house  of  Hurlbut,  Hess  &  Co.,  Chicago. 
Five  years  later  he  returned  to  Quincy  and  en- 
gaged in  the  retail  drug  trade  at  Sixth  and 
Hampshire  streets,  afterwards  moving  to  his 
present  location.  Mr.  Schmitt  now  has  one  of 
the  leading  drug  stores  of  Quincy  and  enjoys  a 
large  patronage.  He  attends  strictly  to  busi- 
ness and  has  established  an  enviable  reputation 
in  business  circles.  With  his  wife  and  three 
promising  children  he  has  a  large  and  pleasant 
home  at  Thirteenth  and  Spring  streets. 

THOMAS  S.  BALDWIN. 

Mr.  Thomas  S.  Baldwin,  the  world-famous 
aeronaut,  was  born  in  Quincy  January  30,  1861. 
and  started  in  life  as  a  lamp  lighter  for  the  gas 
company  and  a  newspaper  carrier.  He  early 
took  a  liking  to  athletic  work,  and  in  1875  went 
out  with  George  W.  De  Haven's  circus  as  a 
gymnast.  Later  he  was  with  W.  W.  Cole's  cir- 
cus, and  then  joined  a  partner  in  tight  rope 
walking  and  trapeze  performing.  While  per- 
forming in  an  Ohio  town  the  trapeze  broke  and 
both  were  plunged  to  the  ground.  His  partner 
was  killed,  but  Mr.  Baldwin  escaped  serious 
injury,  and  in  1880  went  to  California.  While 
there  he  became  interested  in  aeronautics,  and 
v:as  the  first  man  in  this  country  to  make  a 


parachute  descent  from  a  balloon.  His  first 
parachute  descent  was  made  near  the  Cliff 
House,  San  Francisco,  and  the  second  in  Quincy 
in  1886.  It  was  during  the  celebration  of  that 
year  and  he  made  the  memorable  descent  of 
more  than  three  miles  from  a  balloon.  That 
made  him  famous,  and  while  he  has  many  imi- 
tators in  the  hazardous  business  he  has  no 
equals.  The  name  Baldwin  stands  to-day  for 
all  that  is  most  advanced,  skillful  and  daring  in 
the  science  of  ballooning.  In  1887  he  wenl  to 
England  and  gave  exhibitions  during  the  sea- 
son at  Alexandria  Palace,  London,  his  audience 
including  the  Prince  of  Wales  and  other  mem- 
bers of  the  royal  family  and  the  nobility.  From 
England  he  went  to  Australia,  India,  Italy  and 
Spain,  and  then  returned  to  America.  In  1890-91 
he  made  a  tour  around  the  world,  creating  a 
furore  of  wonder  and  admiration  in  every  coun- 
try he  visited  and  gave  exhibitions.  He  sailed 
from  San  Francisco  to  Japan,  and  thence  to 
China,  Manila,  Corea,  Siam,  Java,  Sumatra  and 
all  through  the  Straights  settlements,  to  India, 
back  through  Europe  and  England  and  home 
by  way  of  New  York.  He  has  made  a  close, 
study  of  practical  aeronautics,  and  his  advice 
and  judgment  is  in  constant  demand  by  the 
most  eminent  scientists  in  the  country.  In  1891 
he  purchased  Singleton  Park,  changed  its  name 
to  Baldwin  Park,  and  has  made  it  the  great  out- 
door pleasure  resort  of  the  city.  He  was  mar- 
ried in  1886  to  Miss  Carrie  P.  Pool,  and  they 
have  one  son. 


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REPRESENTATIVE  MEN  AND  HOMES. 


HERMAN  MOECKER. 

Few  names  are  better  known  in  Quincy  than 
that  of  Herman  Moecker,  the  popular  hotel  man. 
He  is  a  young  man,  but  commands  an  impor- 
tant influence  in  the  community.  He  was  born 
in  Quincy  October  16,  1866,  and  this  city  has 
always  been  his  home.  His  father,  Herman 
Moecker,  Sr.,  came  to  Quincy  in  1856,  and  built 
the  Pacific  Hotel,  which  he  successfully  con- 
ducted for  many  years.  The  son  was  associated 
with  him  before  his  death,  and  succeeded  to  the 
business,  which  he  has  made  even  more  success- 
ful. The  construction  of  the  new  railroad  ter- 
minals necessitated  a  change  of  location,  and  a» 
this  writing  Mr.  Moecker  has  perfected  the 
plans  for  the  erection  of  a  new  and  elegant  hotel 
on  Second  street,  near  the  entrance  to  the  new 
C.,  B.  &  Q.  passenger  station. 

Mr.  Moecker  is  a  democrat,  and  has  justly 
won  the  reputation  of  being  one  of  the  best 
political  generals  in  that  party.  He  was  chair- 
man of  the  democratic  city  central  committee 
in  1897,  and  chairman  of  the  democratic  county 
central  committee  in  1898,  and  the  victories  of 
his  party  in  those  years  are  largely  attributed  to 
his  shrewd  management  of  the  campaigns.  He 
was  elected  an  alderman  from  the  Second  Ward 
in  1895  and  1896  and  again  re-elected,  without 
opposition,  in  1898.  He  has  been  one  of  the 


most  influential  members  of  the  city  council 
during  his  four  years'  service  in  that  body,  and 
has  been  instrumental  in  the  enactment  of  much 
important  municipal  legislation.  He  was  mar- 
ried in  1888  to  Miss  Mollie  Ohnemus,  and  they 
have  two  bright  sons,  Herman,  Jr.,  and  Eugene. 


CHARLES  W.  BREITWIESER. 

Mr.  Charles  W.  Breitwieser,  one  of  Quincy's 
representative  and  most  popular  retail  grocers 
is  a  native  of  Quincy,  born  here  March  5,  1862. 
He  left  school  when  thirteen  years  of  age  to 
learn  the  cigar  makers'  trade,  but  a  year  later 
accepted  a  position  in  a  retail  grocery  store.  He 
remained  there  for  sixteen  years,  securing  a 
complete  and  comprehensive  knowledge  of  every 
department  of  the  business.  In  1892  he  bought 
out  the  grocery  business  of  Mr.  William  Evers, 
succeeding  to  an  established  trade  which  he  not 
only  maintained  but  increased  substantially. 
This  summer  Mr.  Breitwieser  removed  to  his 
present  quarters,  near  the  corner  of  Fifth  and 
Hampshire  streets,  where  he  has  one  of  the 
most  attractive  and  inviting  grocery  stores  in 
the  city. 


REPRESENTATIVE  MEN  AND  HOMES. 


J.  S.  SLUSHER. 

Mr.  J.  S.  Slusher  was  born  in  Bentley,  Han- 
cock county,  Illinois,  April  6,  1867.  He  is  a  son 
of  Mr.  J.  A.  Slusher,  one  of  the  pioneers  of  Han- 
cock county.  While  attending  school  he  worked 
in  his  father's  store  at  Bentley  and  early  devel- 
oped a  natural  aptitude  for  merchandising. 
After  completing  a  commercial  college  course, 
he  accepted  a  position  in  a  dry  goods  store  at 
Port  Scott,  Kan.,  and  then  engaged  in  business 
for  himself.  Two  years  later  he  concluded  to 
return  to  his  native  state  and  in  December,  1891. 
started  his  Noah's  Ark  in  this  city,  devoted  to 
the  sale  of  general  merchandise.  The  start  was 
a  very  modest  one,  the  front  half  of  the  smaller 
of  his  first  Hampshire  street  stores  being  amply 
large  to  accommodate  his  entire  stock.  But  the 
young  merchant  was  not  afraid  of  hard  work. 
He  had  a  most  attractive  faculty  of  displaying 
goods  and  the  ability  to  sell  them.  His  capital 
was  turned  quickly  and  the  business  prospered 
steadily.  Soon  the  entire  store  was  occupied 
and  before  the  close  of  the  third  year  the  second 
and  larger  store  was  leased.  New  departments 
have  been  added  from  time  to  time  until  Mr. 
Slusher  conducted  a  large  and  important  busi 
ness.  Last  spring  he  removed  to  the  Rogers 
building,  on  Sixth  and  Hampshire  streets,  one 
of  the  largest  business  blocks  in  the  city.  He 
was  married  June  18,  1890,  to  Miss  Helen  Davis, 
cf  Carthage,  111.,  and  they  have  one  son. 


JOEL  BENTON. 

While  he  is  one  of  the  younger  of  the  active 
business  men  of  Quincy,  Mr.  Benton  comes  of 
one  of  the  oldest  and  most  widely  known  fami- 
lies. His  grandfather,  the  late  Joel  Benton, 
came  to  Adams  county  from  Connecticut  in 
1834,  locating  at  Mendon,  where  he  resided  up  to 
the  time  of  his  death,  more  than  sixty  years. 
His  father,  Mr.  W.  W.  Benton,  was  born  in  a 
log  cabin  in  Mendon,  not  over  one  hundred  feet 
from  the  handsome  residence  which  he  now 
occupies.  Mr.  Joel  Benton  enjoyed  the  advan- 
tages of  an  excellent  common  school  ard  com 
mercial  college  education  and  in  September, 
1889,  accepted  a  position  in  the  Quincy  National 
Bank,  his  father  being  one  of  the  directors. 
Later  he  was  one  of  the  directors  and  treasurer 
of  the  Quincy  Artificial  Ice  Company.  Pour 
years  ago  the  Benton-Dudley  Agricultural  Im- 
plement Company  was  organized,  of  which  Mr. 
Benton  is  manager.  The  company  has  a  large 
salesroom  on  Hampshire  street,  near  Eighth, 
and  a  spacious  warehouse  on  Second  and  Ver- 
mont streets,  conducting  an  extensive  business. 
He  is  also  one  of  the  directors  of  the  Quincy 
National  Bank.  Mr.  Benton  is  active  and  ener- 
getic, attentive  to  business  at  all  times,  and  is  a 
worthy  descendant  of  his  New  England 
ancestors. 


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REPRESENTATIVE  MEN  AND  HOMES. 


HERBERT  L.  LONSDALE. 

Mr.  Herbert  L.  Lonsdale,  of  the  firm  of  S.  D. 
Rider  &  Co.,  has  been  a  resident  of  Quincy  only 
two  years,  but  he  has  already  made  his  influence 
felt  in  the  business  community.  Active  and 
aggressive,  possessing  unlimited  capacity  for 
detail,  he  is  a  fair  type  of  the  successful  young 
business  man  of  to-day.  Born  on  a  farm  near 
Pillar  Point,  N.  Y.,  August  2,  1871,  he  early 
made  up  his  mind  to  engage  in  business  and 
when  still  young  secured  a  position  with  a 
wholesale  queensware  house  at  Watertown,  N. 
Y.  In  1894  he  formed  a  copartnership  with  S. 
D.  Rider  and  opened  a  flve-and-ten-cent  store  at 
South  Bend,  Ind.  The  idea  was  a  new  one  and 
the  enterprise  was  immediately  successful.  A 
second  store  was  soon  after  established  at 
Lafayette  and  the  firm  now  has  stores  at  South 
Bend,  Joliet,  Decatur,  Dubuque,  Davenport  and 
Quincy,  nine  in  all,  covering  three  states.  Fre- 
quently the  entire  product  of  a  factory  is  pur- 
chased and  the  firm  has  a  buyer  of  their  own  in 
the  European  markets.  Mr.  Lonsdale  opened 
the  Quincy  store  in  March,  1897.  A  very  large 
business  was  done  from  the,  start  and  it  has 
been  increased  steadily.  Quick  to  determine 
what  the  people  want,  he  is  as  prompt  in  meet- 
ing the  demand.  Recently  the  title  of  the  firm 
has  been  changed  to  the  S.  D.  Rider  &  Co.  Syn- 
dicate. Mr.  Lonsdale  has  made  Quincy  his  per- 
manent home  and  he  is  one  of  the  city's  most 
aggressive  business  men. 


WILLIAM  L.  MOORE. 

The  chief  operator  of  the  Western  Union  Tele- 
graph office  in  Quincy,  Mr.  William  L.  Moore, 
was  born  in  Parsonsfield,  Me.,  May  28,  1854.  He 
is  a  son  of  the  late  Dr.  John  Moore,  who  came  to 
Quincy  in  1870,  and  who  was  for  many  years  one 
of  the  leading  physicians  and  surgeons  of  the 
city.  The  son  left  school  when  fifteen  years  of 
age  to  learn  telegraphy,  operating  at  Kankakee, 
111.,  and  came  here  in  the  fall  of  1871.  He  soon 
obtained  a  position  with  the  old  North  Missouri 
Railroad  at  Lathrup,  Mo.,  where  he  remained 
for  a  short  time  and  then  accepted  a  place  with 
the  Quincy,  Alton  &  St.  Louis  Railway,  in  this 
city.  Afterwards  he  held  positions  at  Hannibal 
and  at  West  Quincy  and  in  1876  was  promoted 
to  a  position  in  the  train  dispatcher's  office  at 
the  Quincy  depot,  which  he  held  four  years,  and 
in  1880  was  employed  in  the  Wabash  office. 
July  15,  1881,  he  went  into  the  Western  Union 
uptown  office,  where  he  has  since  remained.  In 
August,  1894,  he  was  appointed  manager,  the 
position  which  he  resigned  recently  to  resume 
his  former  place  as  chief  operator.  From  1894 
until  1898,  he  was  also  superintendent  of  tele- 
graph for  the  Quincy,  Omaha  &  Kansas  City  Ry. 
Few  men  in  the  business  have  had  a  wider  or 
more  comprehensive  training  or  are  more  thor- 
oughly qualified  for  the  responsible  position 
which  he  now  occupies.  As  manager  of  tEls 
important  office  he  gave  satisfaction  to  the 
general  public  as  well  as  to  the  officers  of  the 
company. 


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REPRESENTATIVE  MEN  AND  HOMES. 


THOMAS  J.  CLARK. 

Mr.  Thomas  J.  Clark,  deputy  internal  revenue 
collector,  was  born  in  Huntsville  township, 
Schuyler  county,  Illinois,  September  16,  1853. 
His  father,  Harrison  Clark,  came  of  an  old  and 
prominent  Kentucky  family  and  located  in 
Schuyler  county  in  1833,  where,  during  his  long 
and  useful  life  he  accumulated  a  large  tract  of 
valuable  farming  land.  After  obtaining  a  thor- 
ough common  school  education  Thomas  at- 
tended the  Lincoln  University  for  two  years.  In 
1875  he  purchased  a  farm  in  Sedgwick  county, 
Kansas,  but  two  years  later  engaged  in  the 
grain  business  at  Wichita.  In  1879  he  trans- 
ferred his  grain  business  to  McPherson,  where 
he  built  an  elevator  and  shipped  the  first  car 
load  of  grain  from  that  station.  In  1881  he 
returned  to  Illinois  and  purchased  the  farm  in 
Pea  Ridge  township,  Brown  county,  where  he 
has  since  resided.  He  was  married  in  1874  to 
Miss  Virginia  Anderson,  of  Huntsville,  and  they 
have  five  sons  and  two  daughters.  In  1890  Mr. 
Clark  was  special  agent  of  the  government  to 
enumerate  the  recorded  indebtedness  in  the 
Twelfth  Congressional  District  and  he  has 
served  several  terms  as  secretary  of  the  Brown 
County  Mutual  Insurance  Company.  He  has 
always  taken  an  active  interest  in  political 
affairs  and  is  widely  known  throughout  the 
state. 


ALBERT  SELLNER. 

Mr.  Albert  Sellner  was  born  in  Buffalo,  N.  Y., 
November  2,  1850,  and  came  to  this  city  with 
his  parents  six  years  later.  His  father,  Mr. 
Charles  Sellner,  has  been  engaged  in  the  leather 
business  here  for  over  forty  years  and  is  one  of 
Quincy's  most  honored  and  highly  respected 
citizens.  After  receiving  a  thorough  common 
school  education,  Mr.  Albert  Sellner  graduated 
from  the  chemistry  department  of  the  Royal 
Polytechnic  Institute  at  Stuttgart,  Germany. 
Returning  to  this  city  in  1870  he  devoted  him- 
self for  some  time  to  analytical  chemistry  and 
the  manufacture  of  chemicals.  In  1873  he 
accepted  the  position  of  chemist  with  Miller, 
Terdenge  &  Co.,  and  two  years  later  became  a 
partner  in  the  business,  the  firm  being  Miller, 
Arthur  &  Sellner,  remaining  in  the  drug  busi- 
ness until  1889.  Shortly  after  that  date  he 
engaged  in  his  present  business,  photographic 
supplies,  in  which  he  has  been  eminently  suc- 
cessful. In  chemistry,  which  enters  so  largely 
into  successful  photography,  Mr.  Sellner  is 
without  a  peer  in  this  locality  and  his  high 
artistic  attainments  have  also  been  of  great 
advantage  to  him  in  his  present  line  of  business. 
He  inherits  the  sterling  qualities  of  his  father, 
as  well  as  his  quiet,  genial  courtesy,  and  is  a 
model  business  man  and  citizen. 


REPRESENTATIVE  MEN  AND  HOMES. 


JAMES  B.  CORRIGAN. 

One  of  the  successful  young  men  of  Quincy  is 
James  B.  Corrigan,  a  member  of  the  enterpris- 
ing hardware  firm  of  Kreider  &  Corrigan.  He 
is  a  native  of  Adams  county,  having  been  born 
in  Liberty  Township  February  21,  1856.  His 
father,  James  Corrigan,  was  one  of  the  promi- 
nent farmers  of  Liberty,  having  lived  in  the 
township  for  fifty-three  years,  enjoying  the 
respect  and  confidence  of  the  whole  community. 
The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  educated  in  the 
common  schools,  and  then  at  the  Camp  Point 
High  School.  He  then  attended  St.  Francis  Col- 
lege, where  he  graduated  with  high  honors, 
receiving  the  degree  of  A.  B.  Deciding  upon  a 
legal  profession,  he  studied  law  in  the  office  of 
Carter  &  Govert,  and  while  pursuing  his  studies 
he  accepted  a  position  as  office  deputy  under 
Sheriff  Heckle.  Later  he  became  deputy  county 
treasurer  under  John  B.  Kreitz,  and  his  experi- 
ence and  efficiency  in  that  office  led  to  his 
election  as  county  treasurer  in  1894.  He  served 
his  term,  and  then  remained  in  the  office  for  a 
year  under  Treasurer  George  McAdams,  his  suc- 
cessor. Determining  then  upon  a  commercial 
life  he  purchased  an  interest  in  the  Kreider 
hardware  business,  the  firm  name  being 
changed  to  Kreider  &  Corrigan,  and  in  that  line 
of  activity  he  has  been  very  successful.  Per- 
sonally, Mr.  Corrigan  is  one  of  the  most  pleas- 
ant of  gentlemen,  and  his  friends  are  legion. 
Mr.  Corrigan  is  married,  his  wife's  maiden  name 
having  been  Miss  Agnes  Bernbrock,  of  this  city. 


ALDERMAN  J.  FRED  TELLBUESCHER. 
Mr.  J.  Fred  Tellbuescher,  senior  alderman 
from  the  Third  Ward,  was  born  in  Germany 
February  7,  1848,  and  came  to  this  city  with  his 
parents  in  1856.  As  a  boy  he  was  obliged  to 
hustle  for  himself,  working  as  a  tobacco  stem- 
mer  at  75  cents  per  week.  He  afterwards 
learned  the  trade  of  wood  turning  and  in  1872 
went  to  St.  Louis,  where  he  worked  at  his  trade 
and  soon  secured  the  position  of  superintendent 
of  a  furniture  shop  at  Jefferson  City.  In  the 
fall  of  1874  he  returned  to  this  city  and  shortly 
after  concluded  to  take  a  trip  over  the  country. 
Then  he  engaged  in  farming  on  Sni  Island  for 
five  years,  but  the  floods  got  most  of  his  crops, 
and  in  1880  he  came  back  to  the  city  and  opened 
a  small  saloon  in  one  corner  of  the  old  Geise 
paper  mill.  Four  years  later  he  built  his  pres- 
ent substantial  buildings  on  South  Front  street. 
Mr.  Tellbuescher  has  held  the  office  of  president 
of  the  local  saloon  keepers'  association  since  it 
was  formed,  with  the  exception  of  three  years, 
is  vice  president  of  the  State  Liquor  Dealers' 
Association  and  the  representative  of  that  body 
for  southern  Illinois.  He  was  elected  to  the 
City  Council  in  1894  and  has  been  three  times 
re-elected,  at  the  present  time  being  a  member 
of  the  finance,  ordinance,  permanent  improve- 
ment and  street  committees  and  chairman  of 
the  auditing  committee.  He  is  also  a  member 
of  the  board  of  health  and  is  one  of  the  commis- 
sioners of  the  House  of  Correction. 


THE  MEDICAL  PROFESSION. 


DR.  JOSEPH 

One  of  the  distinguished  coterie  of  citizens  off  - 
Quincy  who  have  attained  national  reputation 
is  Dr.  Joseph  Robbins,  whose  fame  may  be  prop- 
erly said  to  have  been  atained  in  three  branches 
— professionally,  politically  and  as  an  authority 
in  Free  Masonry.  He  was  born  in  Leominster, 
Mass.,  September  12,  1834,  his  ancestors  having 
been  members  of  the  Plymouth  colony.  His 
grandfather  was  a  soldier  of  the  revolution, 


ROBBINS. 

menced  the  practice  of  his  profession  in  Quincy 
immediately  after  his  graduation,  and  has  con- 
tinued it  uninterruptedly  ever  since. 

Dr.  Robbins  stands  at  the  head  of  his  profes- 
sion, and  his  reputation  is  not  bound  by  state 
lines.  He  has  kept  pace  with  the  phenomenal 
progress  which  has  been  made  in  the  science 
of  medicine,  and  is  awarded  the  foremost  place 
by  his  fellow  practitioners.  He  is  a  valued  mem- 


and  a  granduncle  was  killed  at  the  battle  of 
Bunker  Hill.  His  grandfather  fought  all  through 
the  war  for  American  independence,  and  lived 
to  be  present  at  the  unveiling  of  the  Bunker 
Hill  monument.  The  doctor's  father,  Oilman 
Robbins,  was  a  successful  business  man  of  Leo- 
minster,  and  his  mother,  whose  maiden  name 
was  Rebecca  Dunster,  was  a  descendant  of  the 
first  president  of  Harvard  College. 

Dr.  Robbins  early  determined  upon  a  medical 
career,  and  was  professionally  educated  in  Jef- 
ferson Medical  College,  Philadelphia.  He  first 
came  to  Quincy  in  1858,  but  returned  to  Phila- 
delphia to  complete  his  medical  education,  grad- 
uating from  Jefferson  College  in  1861.  He  com- 


ber of  the  American  Medical  Association,  the 
Illinois  State  Medical  Society,  the  Adams 
County  Medical  Society  and  the  Quincy  Medical 
and  Library  Association  and  in  all  gatherings  of 
the  profession  his  opinions  are  accepted  as 
authority. 

While  attaining  fame  in  his  profession,  Dr. 
Robbins  has  found  time  to  devote  to  public 
affairs  and  questions  of  state,  and  while  he  has 
never  held  office  he  has  for  many  years  exer- 
cised a  powerful  influence  in  the  councils  of  the 
republican  party  in  the  state  and  nation.  He 
has  taken  an  intelligent  interest  in  all  questions 
affecting  the  welfare  of  the  city,  the  state  and 
the  nation,  and  his  council  and  judgment  have 


REPRESENTATIVE  MEN  AND  HOMES. 


always  been  sought  after.  His  disinterested  zeal 
and  sound  judgment  have  been  recognized  and 
appreciated  by  his  fellow-citizens,  and  he  has 
represented  the  party  almost  continuously  at 
county,  congressional  district  and  state  conven- 
tions, and  in  1876  and  again  in  1892  was  a  dele- 
gate-at-large  in  the  republican  national  con- 
vention. He  was  the  nominee  for  the  constitu- 
tional convention  of  1870  and  for  congress  in 
1876.  In  1896  he  was  urged  as  a  candidate  for 
the  gubernatorial  nomination,  and  his  name 
was  presented  to  the  state  convention  by  the 
solid  vote  of  this  congressional  district. 

Dr.  Robbins  is  endowed  with  rare  literary 
taste,  anl  his  magazine,  professional  and 
esoteric  writings  are  recognized  as  classics.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Quincy  board  of  education 
for  many  years,  and  it  is  largely  due  to  his 
efforts  that  the  public  school  system  of  Quincy 
was  built  up  to  the  high  standard  of  excellence 
which  is  commended  throughout  the  state.  A 
ripe  scholar  and  omnivorous  student,  he  has 
for  thirty  years  been  identified  with  library  in- 
terests. He  was  prominent  in  the  work  of  the 
old  library  association,  was  one  of  the  founders 
of  the  Quincy  Public  Library,  and  was  one  of 
the  first  directors  of  that  institution  and  for 
many  years  after  was  a  member  of  the  board. 
So  eminent  has  been  his  library  work  that  upon 
the  death  of  James  Russell  Young,  librarian  of 
the  congressional  library  at  Washington,  Dr. 
Robbins  was  prominently  mentioned  as  his  suc- 
cessor in  that  exalted  and  responsible  position, 
and  his  name  was  seriously  considered  for  some 
time  by  President  McKinley  in  connection  with 
the  appointment. 

In  addition  to  all  these  multifarious  interests, 
Dr.  Robbins  has  still  further  found  time  to  de- 
vote to  the  ancient  order  of  Free  Masonry,  and 
in  that  mystic  association  has  gained  a  distinc- 
tion which  is  little  short  of  world  wide.  He  was 
made  a  Mason  in  Massachusetts,  and  his  fraters 
of  Illinois  have  conferred  upon  him  every  honor 
within  their  gift.  In  1876  he  was  chosen  grand 
master  of  the  Illinois  grand  lodge  of  Masons.  He 
has  reviewed  the  reports  of  the  grand  lodges  for 
a  number  of  years,  and  his  Masonic  writings  are 
accepted  as  authority.  For  most  of  the  time  for 
thirty  years  he  has  prepared  the  correspon- 
dence reports  of  the  Illinois  grand  lodge  of 
Masons,  an  exalted  work  that  has  made  his 
name  familiar  throughout  the  length  and 
breadth  of  the  Masonic  world,  the  boundaries  of 
which  are  coincident  with  the  circumference  of 
the  globe. 

Dr.  Robbins'  eminence  as  a  physician,  as  a 
scholar  and  as  a  Mason  but  exemplify  the  indi- 


vidual as  a  man,  as  a  citizen.  He  is  at  all  times 
courteous,  affable  and  approachable,  is  the  soul 
of  honor  and  integrity,  and  is  in  every  way  the 
highest  type  of  the  American  gentleman.  His 
wife,  Julia  Pratt  Robbins,  is  the  editor  of  the 
Quincy  Sunday  Optic,  and  is  a  lady  of  liberal 
culture  and  high  literary  attainments. 


DR.  ROBERT  J.  CHRISTIE,  JR. 

Dr.  Robert  J.  Christie,  Jr.,  was  born  in  Lou- 
doun  county,  Virginia,  in  1864  anl  came  to 
Quincy  with  his  parents  in  1886.  Two  years 
later  he  graduated  from  the  medical  department 
of  Chaddock  College  and  in  1890  graduated  from 
the  medical  department  of  the  University  of 
Pennsylvania.  He  has  since  been  associated 
with  his  father,  Dr.  R.  J.  Christie,  Sr.,  in  active 
practice  in  this  city.  For  four  years  he  was 
surgeon  in  charge  of  Blessing  Hospital  and  is 
now  a  member  of  the  medical  board  and  con- 
sulting surgeon  for  that  institution.  Dr.  Chris- 
tie is  also  ex-president  of  the  Adams  County 
Medical  Society,  a  member  of  the  American 
Medical  Association  and  secretary  of  the  Quincy 
Board  of  Pension  Examiners.  His  prominence 
in  surgery  is  further  attested  by  the  fact  that 
he  is  local  assistant  surgeon  of  the  Hannibal  & 
St.  Joseph  and  the  St.  Louis,  Keokuk  &  North- 
western Railways  and  surgeon  to  the  Old  Peo- 
ple's Home  of  the  German  M.  E.  church.  He  is 
also  physician  and  surgeon  for  the  Travelers' 
Protective  Association  and  for  the  United  Com- 
mercial Travelers  of  America. 


REPRESENTATIVE  MEN  AND  HOMES. 


DR.  I.  T.  WILSON. 


In  term  of  active  practice  Dr.  I.  T.  Wilson  is 
the  ranking  physician  of  Quincy  and  he  is  also 
one  of  the  most  prominent  members  of  his  pro- 
fession in  this  section  of  Illinois.  For  nearly 
fifty  years  he  has  been  practicing  medicine  in 
this  city  and  he  is  generally  and  favorably 
known  throughout  the  community.  Dr.  Wilson 
was  born  in  Bourbon  county,  Kentucky,  March 
24,  1825.  He  was  licensed  to  practice  medicine 
and  surgery  by  the  University  of  Louisville  and 
on  August  11,  1848,  came  to  this  city,  but  located 


though  unsuccessful,  for  the  position  of  surgeon 
of  that  command.  Soon  after  he  was  appointed 
brigade  surgeon  under  General  William  A. 
Richardson,  who  was  then  a  member  of  con- 
gress, but  friends  of  General  Richardson  in- 
duced him  to  reluctantly  resign  his  commission 
as  brigadier  general,  on  the  ground  that  he 
could  be  of  greater  service  to  his  country  in  con- 
gress than  in  the  field  and  this  resignation  de- 
prived Dr.  Wilson  of  his  coveted  position  at  the 
front.  Then  the  doctor  was  appointed  surgeon 


at  Ursa,  where  he  practiced  for  two  years.  He 
then  graduated  from  the  University  of  the  City 
of  New  York  and  returning  to  Quincy  has  been 
engaged  in  active  practice  here  ever  since. 
While  at  Ursa,  in  March,  1850,  he  participated  in 
the  organization  of  the  Adams  County  Medical 
Society  and  is  now  the  only  surviving  constitu- 
ent member  of  that  body.  Immediately  after 
the  attack  on  Fort  Sumter  in  the  spring  of  1861, 
his  services  on  behalf  of  the  Union  were  ten- 
dered to  Governor  Yates,  and  from  that  time 
until  after  the  close  of  the  war  he  was  actively 
engaged  in  the  Union  cause.  He  made  the  medi- 
cal examinations  for  the  Sixteenth  Illinois  In- 
fantry, the  first  regiment  to  cross  the  Missis- 
sippi River  at  this  point,  and  was  a  candidate, 


of  the  Tenth  Illinois  Cavalry  by  Colonel  James 
Barrett,  of  Springfield,  sustained  a  favorable 
examination  before  the  military  medical  board, 
but  failed  of  confirmation  as  surgeon  through 
the  meddlesome  interference  of  a  political 
enemy.  Early  in  the  war,  however,  through  the 
suggestion  of  Senator  Browning  and  Captain 
Newton  Flagg,  he  was  appointed  surgeon  by  the 
surgeon  general  of  the  United  States  and  as- 
sisted in  the  organization  of  hospital  number 
two,  at  the  corner  of  Fifth  and  Jersey  streets 
in  this  city,  remaining  in  charge  of  that  hos- 
pital until  three  months  after  the  close  of  the 
war.  Not  long  after  taking  charge  of  the  hos- 
pital he  was  appointed  surgeon  of  the  prepara- 
tion camp  which  was  maintained  north  of  the 


REPRESENTATIVE  MEN  AND  HOMES. 


city  most  of  the  time  during  the  war.  This 
additional  service,  with  the  care  of  the  hun- 
dreds of  sick  and  wounded  soldiers  constantly 
in  the  hospital  and  the  examination  of  about 
22,000  men  for  the  regular  and  volunteer  ser- 
vice, was  loyally  performed,  although  the  duties 
left  very  few  hours  for  rest  or  sleep.  Since  the 
close  of  the  war  he  served  sixteen  years  as  a 
member  and  secretary  of  the  board  of  pension 
examiners. 

The  study  and  practice  of  medicine  has  been 
Dr.  Wilson's  chief  and  only  ambition.  He  has 
never  been  a  politician,  but  always  a  democrat 
and  a  supporter  of  the  democratic  ticket  until 
1896,  when  he  repudiated  what  he  considered 
the  undemocratic  platform  adopted  at  Chicago. 
He  served  several  years  as  chairman  of  the 
Adams  county  democratic  committee  and  was 
chief  marshal  on  the  occasion  of  the  great  Lin- 
coln-Douglas debate  in  this  city,  October  13, 
1858.  Dr.  Wilson  relates  an  interesting  incident 
of  that  occasion  in  vindication  of  Judge  Doug- 
las'  political  integrity,  or  what  may  be  termed 
his  patriotic  inconsistency.  After  the  debate  he 
called  on  Judge  Douglas  at  the  home  of  Dr. 
Samuel  Rogers.  In  the  course  of  the  conversa- 
tion the  doctor  asked  the  distinguished  guest 
why,  after  announcing  a  year  or  two  previous, 
that  "the  Missouri  compromise  was  canonized 
in  the  hearts  of  the  American  people,"  he  had 
voted  for  the  repeal  of  that  measure.  Judge 
Douglas  replied  that  for  two  or  three  years  some 
of  the  southern  senators  had  been  talking  to 
him  about  seceding  from  the  Union,  but  they 
finally  assured  him  that  if  he  would  aid  them  in 
the  repeal  of  the  Missouri  compromise  they 
would  never  say  anything  more  about  secession. 
"I  voted  for  the  repeal,"  said  Judge  Douglas,  "as 
I  believe,  in  the  interest  of  my  country." 

DR.  J.  H.  RICE. 

Dr.  J.  H.  Rice  was  born  in  Richfield  town- 
ship, Adams  county,  April  13,  1855.  His  father, 
the  late  William  Rice,  was  one  of  the  early 
pioneers,  locating  in  this  county  in  1834,  and 
for  a  long  term  of  years  he  was  a  prominent 
and  honored  farmer.  Dr.  Rice  graduated  from 
the  Cincinnati  Medical  College  in  1878  and  first 
practiced  at  Niantic  in  Macon  county.  He  after- 
wards located  at  Mendon,  where  he  built  up  a 
very  large  practice,  in  which  he  was  so  success- 


ful that  he  became  widely  known  throughout 
this  section  of  the  state.  In  1892  he  came  to 
Quincy,  the  record  of  his  success  in  both  medi- 
cine and  surgery  having  preceded  him  and  he 
at  once  established  an  important  practice.  Last 
year  in  order  to  avail  himself  of  the  more  recent 
development  in  medicine  and  surgery,  he  took 
a  post-graduate  course  at  the  Chicago  Clinical 
School  of  Medicine  and  graduated  at  Rush  Med- 
ical College.  He  also  attended  surgical  clinics 
at  St.  Luke's,  Chicago,  Presbyterian  and  other 


large  Chicago  hospitals.  To  lay  aside  for  sev- 
eral months  such  a  practice  as  he  left  here 
required  more  than  ordinary  determination,  but 
he  returned  fully  equipped  in  all  the  latest  dis- 
coveries and  advancements  in  his  important 
profession.  Dr.  Rice  is  a  member  of  the  Adams 
county,  tri-state,  state  and  national  medical 
societies,  is  surgeon  of  the  Quincy,  Omaha  & 
Kansas  City  Railway  and  a  member  of  the 
Blessing  Hospital  staff.  He  is  prominent  in 
Masonry,  being  eminent  commander  of  El  Aksa 
Commandery,  Knights  Templar,  past  high 
priest  of  Mendon  Chapter,  Royal  Arch  Masons, 
and  a  member  of  Quincy  Masonic  lodge.  He 
was  married  in  1878  to  Miss  Mary  St.  Clair,  of 
Mechanicsburg,  111.  They  have  one  daughter. 


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DR.  HENRY  HATCT  c 

Dr.  Henry  Hatch  was  born  Feb.-uary  22,  1848, 
in  Philadelphia,  Pa.  Left  an  orphan  in  very 
early  childhood  he  was  obliged  to  rely  on  his 
own  resources  and  with  him  the  earnest  work 
of  life  commenced  when  he  was  a  boy.  Coming 
west  in  1856  he  found  a  home  near  Griggsville, 
111.,  and  alternately  attended  school  and  worked 
on  a  farm.  When  fifteen  years  of  age  he  took  a 
course  in  literature  and  science  at  the  Illinois 
University  at  Bloomington.  Three  years  later 
he  became  a  clerk  in  a  dry  goods  store  at  Law- 
rence, Kan.,  but  having  determined  on  a  profes- 
sional career  returned  to  Griggsville  in  1868  and, 
began  the  study  of  medicine  under  Dr.  E.  R. 
Stoner.  He  afterwards  attended  three  courses 
of  lectures  at  the  Louisville  Medical  College, 
where  he  received  the  degree  of  M.  D.,  February 
28,  1873.  In  1880  he  took  a  post-graduate  course 
at  Long  Island  College  Hospital  and  then  con- 
tinued his  studies  in  Europe,  chiefly  in  Berlin 
and  Paris,  attending  the  clinics  of  some  of  the 
most  eminent  surgeons  and  physicians  of 
Europe.  On  returning  to  this  country  he  located 
in  Quincy  in  September,  188'l,  where  he  has 
since  been  engaged  in  active  practice.  From 
1882-'87  he  was  at  various  times  professor,  prin- 
ciple and  practice,  in  the  medical  department  of 
Chaddock  College.  He  is  also  a  contributor  to 
Appleton's  American  Encyclopedia  and  to  med- 


ical and  surgical  literature.  Dr.  Hatch  is  a 
member  of  the  Adams  County  and  Illinois  State 
Medical  Societies,  the  American  Medical  Asso- 
ciation, the  American  Academy  of  Railway  Sur- 
geons, the  International  Association  of  Railway 
Surgeons,  the  Mississippi  Valley  Medical  Soci- 
ety, the  Tri-State  Medical  Society,  of  the 
Masonic  fraternity  and  other  fraternal  organi- 
zations. He  was  physician  in  charge  of  Blessing 
Hospital  1882-'86,  now  consulting  gyneologist  to 
Blessing  Hospital,  physician  in  charge  of  Wood- 
land Home,  has  been  surgeon  to  the  Chicago, 
Burlington  &  Quincy  Railway  since  1893,  and 
was  president  of  the  school  board  of  Griggsville, 
1875-76.  He  is  at  the  present  time  examiner 
for  several  prominent  life  insurance  companies. 
He  was  married  November  28,  1872.  to  Miss 
Clara  E.  Crawford,  of  Griggsville,  who  died 
June  12,  1892.  On  September  6,  1893,  he  mar- 
ried Miss  Emma  L.  Lyon,  of  Sedalia,  and  they 
I  ave  one  daughter,  Marion  TImma,  born  April 
S3,  1835. 


DR.  L.  H.  A.  NICKERSON. 
On  April  8,  1637,  William  Nickerson,  of  Nor- 
wich, with  his  family,  sailed  from  Ipswich,  Eng- 
land, in  the  ship  "John  and  Dorothy"  to  make 
for  himself  a  home  in  the  new  world.  He 
landed  in  Boston,  June  20,  1637,  located  at  Yar- 
mouth, and  while  living  there  made  the  first  of 
a  series  of  purchases  of  land  from  the  Indians, 
in  that  tract  which  has  since  become  Chatham, 
which  town  he  and  the  members  of  his  family 
were  principally  instrumental  in  founding.  Lin- 
eal descendants  are  yet  living  on  the  land  origi- 
nally purchased  from  the  Indians.  William 
Nickerson  had  three  sons,  one  of  whom  re- 
mained in  Massachusetts,  a  second  located  in 
Maryland  and  the  third  in  Delaware,  and  it  is 
from  the  latter  branch  that  Dr.  Nickerson  is 
descended.  The  doctor  was  born  at  Camden, 
January  27,  1851,  his  father  being  a  merchant 
and  one  of  the  prominent  business  men  of  the 
place.  He  obtained  his  early  education  at  Dover 
and  Wilmington  and  graduated  in  medicine  and 
surgery  from  the  University  of  Pennsylvania  in 
March,  1874.  For  two  years  he  served  as  resi- 
dent physician  in  the  Philadelphia  Hospital, 
locating  in  this  city  in  the  spring  of  1877,  and 
during  his  more  than  twenty  years'  residence 
here  he  has  built  up  a  very  extensive  practice. 
For  several  years  he  had  charge  of  Blessing 
Hospital  and  is  now  consulting  physician  to 
that  institution.  Dr.  Nickerson  is  nominator 
for  the  Equitable  Life  Insurance  Company  for 


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ten  counties  in  western  Illinois;  a  charter  mem- 
ber and  medical  examiner  for  the  Royal  Arca- 
num; local  surgeon  for  the  Wabash  Railway; 
ex-president  and  now  treasurer  of  the  Adams 
County  Medical  Society;  member  of  the  Ameri- 
can Medical  Association,  the  American  Public 
Health  Association  and  state  and  other  socie- 
ties. He  is  also  president  of  the  board  of  pen- 
sion surgeons.  One  of  his  brothers  is  a  surgeon 
in  the  United  States  navy.  Dr.  Nickerson  was 
married  to  Miss  Jessie  S.  Roeschlaub,  daughter 
of  Dr.  Michael  Roeschlaub,  September  15,  1880, 
and  they  have  one  son,  Harry  L.  Dr.  Roesch- 
laub was  a  graduate  of  the  University  of  Munich 
and  his  father  was  dean  of  that  world-famous 
institution  and  private  counselor  to  the  king. 
Dr.  Nickerson  has  always  devoted  his  entire 
time  and  attention  to  the  practice  of  his  pro- 
fession. 

DR.  A.  A.  WHIPPLE. 

Dr.  A.  A.  Whipple  was  born  on  a  farm  in  Cat- 
taraugus  county,  New  York,  October  31,  1845. 
His  father  served  in  the  Union  army  and  was 
captured  at  the  battle  of  Gettysburg,  sent  as  a 
prisoner  of  war  to  Richmond  and  then  to  An- 
dersonville,  where  he  died  in  July,  1864.  Dur- 
ing the  trying  times  of  war  the  care  of  the  fam- 
ily and  of  five  younger  children  devolved  on 
the  subject  of  this  sketch.  At  the  age  of  nine- 


teen Dr.  Whipple  entered  the  employ  of  the 
Erie  Railway  Company  and  remained  an  em- 
ploye of  the  freight  department  for  seven  years. 
He  then  decided  to  devote  his  life  to  the  medical 
profession  and  went  into  the  office  of  Dr. 
Henry  Learned,  at  Salamanca,  N.  Y.,  afterwards 
graduating  frcm  the  Eclectic  Medical  Institute 
of  Cincinnati  and  the  Hahnemann  Medical  Col- 
lege of  Chicago.  He  has  since  attended  surgi- 
cal clinics  at  the  Hahnemann  College  and 
Pratt's  private  clinics  in  surgery.  Dr.  Whipple 
first  commenced  practice  at  Randolph,  N.  Y., 
but  in  1880  came  to  this  city  to  take  the  practice 
of  the  late  Dr.  Moore  and  has  become  one  of  the 
leading  physicians  of  central  Illinois.  For  a  long 
term  of  years  he  was  treasurer  of  the  State 
Homeopathic  Medical  Association  and  after- 
wards president  and  is  prominently  identified 
with  the  American  Institute  of  Homoepathy. 
For  several  years  he  was  a  member  of  the 
Quincy  Board  of  Health.  In  Masonic  circles  he 
has  attained  unusual  distinction,  being  granrl 
captain  of  the  host  of  the  Grand  Chapter  of  Illi- 
nois, past  master  of  Quincy  Lodge,  past  high 
priest  of  Quincy  Chapter,  past  commander  of 
El-Aksa  Commandery,  Knights  Templar,  and 
past  commander-in-chief  of  Quincy  Consistory. 
At  the  triennial  conclave  held  in  Boston  in  1895 
he  was  surgeon  of  the  second  regiment  in  the 
tenth  division.  Dr.  Whipple  was  married  in 
October,  1869,  to  Miss  Lydia  E.  Learned  at  Sala- 
manca, N.  Y.,  and  they  have  four  sons. 


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DR    F.  B   MONTGOMERY. 

Dr.  E.  B.  Montgomery  comes  of  a  long  line  of 
well-known  men  in  the  medical  world,  on  his 
mother's  side  reaching  back  to  Dr.  David  Wish- 
art,  of  Scotland,  his  great  grandfather,  whos2 
five  sons  were  also  prominent  physicians.  A 
sister  of  Dr.  Wishart  was  the  wife  of  the  cele- 
brated Dr.  Abernethy.  The  founder  of  the 
American  branch  of  the  Montgomery  family 
came  to  this  country  from  France  early  in  the 
seventeenth  century  and  his  descendants  were 
prominent  in  the  Indian  wars  and  the  war  of 
the  revolution.  Dr.  Montgomery  was  born  in 
St.  Louis,  May  11,  1858,  and  came  to  Quincy 
with  his  parents  in  January,  1865.  He  gradu- 
ated from  the  Quincy  High  School  in  1874, 
attended  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy 
1874-5  and  graduated  from  the  Jefferson  Medical 
College  in  1878.  He  has  since  been  engaged  in 
the  practice  of  medicine  in  this  city  and  has 
become  widely  known  in  both  medicine  and 
surgery.  From  1880  to  1885  he  was  secretary 
of  the  Adams  County  Medical  Society  and  presi- 
dent of  that  organization  in  1886.  In  1884  he 
was  a  member  of  the  Sanitary  Council  of  the 
Mississippi  Valley,  under  the  presidency  of  Dr. 
John  H.  Rauch  and  made  a  sanitary  survey  of 
this  city,  which  was  published  in  the  report  of 
the  State  Board  of  Health  the  year  following. 
Dr.  Montgomery  is  a  member  of  the  Illinois 


State,  Tri-State,  Mississippi  Valley  and  Ameri- 
can Medical  Associations.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  committee  on  organization  of  the  Pan- 
American  Medical  Congress,  which  he  attended 
in  1893.  From  1888  to  1893  he  was  physician  to 
Blessing  Hospital,  surgeon  of  the  Illinois  Sol- 
diers' and  Sailors'  Home  from  1893  to  1897  and 
afterwards  acting  surgeon  to  that  institution 
and  consulting  physician  to  Blessing  Hospital. 
He  was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  Quincy 
Medical  and  Library  Association  in  1897,  and  is 
examiner  for  the  Northwestern,  Mutual  Life, 
Metropolitan,  Aetna,  Prudential,  Connecticut 
Mutual,  John  Hancock  and  Fidelity  Life  Insur- 
ance companies.  Dr.  Montgomery  was  married 
in  1881  to  Miss  Agnes  Coxe,  of  this  city,  and 
they  have  three  daughters  and  one  son. 

DR.  WILLIAM  S.  KNAPHEIDE. 

In  addition  to  a  comprehensive  professional 
education  in  this  country  Dr.  Knapheide  enjoys 
the  advantages  of  extended  study  with  several 
of  the  noted  teachers  and  scientists  of  Europe. 
He  was  born  in  Quincy  in  1865,  his  father, 
Henry  Knapheide,  being  one  of  the  early  resi- 
dents of  the  city.  After  completing  a  thorough 
literary  and  commercial  education  he  graduated 
at  the  Quincy  College  of  Medicine  and  the  Long 


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the  oldest  and  most  prominent  physicians  in 
Island  College  Hospital  in  Brooklyn.  Then  for 
nearly  three  years  he  studied  abroad,  being  a 
student  of  Prof,  von  Billroth,  of  Vienna  and 
holding  the  position  as  intern  in  the  Royal 
Surgical  Hospital  of  Berlin,  the  finest  and  most 
perfectly  appointed  in  the  world,  under  the 
direction  of  Prof,  von  Bergmann.  He  received 
his  diploma  from  that  noted  institution  and 
afterwards  attended  medical  and  surgical  clin- 
ics in  Leipsic,  Paris  and  London.  Returning  to 
Quincy  in  1893  he  at  once  commenced  active 
practice  and  has  established  a  wide  reputation 
in  medicine  and  surgery.  Devoting  his  atten- 
tion largely  to  abdominal  surgery,  in  this  line 
of  practice  he  has  performed  many  wonderful 
and  successful  operations.  Dr.  Knapheide  is  a 
member  of  Blessing  Hospital  staff,  cf  the  Ber- 
liner Medicinischer  Versamelung  and  is  the  sur- 
geon of  the  London  Guarantee  and  Accident 
Company.  He  was  married  in  1895  to  Miss 
Mary  E.  Brenner,  of  Mendon,  and  they  have  one 
son. 

DR.  J.  B.  SHAWGO. 

Dr.  J.  B.  Shawgo  was  born  in  Ohio  May  7, 
1843.  He  moved  to  Fulton  county,  Illinois,  with 
his  parents  in  1855  and  two  years  later  located 
in  Henderson  county.  He  graduated  at  Abing- 
don  College  after  taking  the  literary  and  scien- 
tific courses,  receiving  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of 
Science.  His  medical  studies  were  prosecuted 
in  New  York  and  Chicago,  where  he  had  every 
advantage  of  extensive  hospital  practice.  At 
the  breaking  out  of  the  war  he  enlisted  in  the 
Eighty-fifth  Illinois  Volunteer  Infantry  and  was 
appointed  a  scout,  in  which  capacity  he  served 
until  peace  was  declared.  For  some  time  he 
was  one  of  the  chief  scouts  of  General  Daniel 
McCook.  At  the  terrible  battle  of  Kennesaw 
Mountain,  where  there  were  more  men  shot 
than  in  any  other  engagement,  Dr.  Shawgo  was 
standing  on  the  breastworks  when  his  brave 
commander  was  shot  almost  by  his  side  and  he 
carried  him  off  the  field.  The  scouting  experi- 
ence of  Dr.  Shawgo  in  Tennessee,  Alabama, 
Georgia  and  North  Carolina,  in  the  heart  of  the 
enemies'  country,  would  fill  a  volume  and  would 
prove  thrilling  reading.  After  the  close  of  the 
war  he  was  engaged  in  educational  work  for 
twelve  years,  professor  of  mathematics  in  Bona- 
parte Seminary,  Iowa,  superintendent  of  schools 
at  Camp  Point  and  at  Bushnell  and  in  1877  came 
to  Quincy  and  resumed  the  practice  of  his  pro- 


fession. For  ten  years  he  has  been  a  member  of 
the  board  of  pension  examiners,  his  first 
appointment  coming  from  President  Harrison. 
He  served  in  the  city  council  four  years  and  was 
chairman  of  the  permanent  improvement  com- 
mittee that  laid  the  first  block  of  brick  pave- 
ment and  put  in  the  electric  lighting  system. 
For  twelve  years  he  has  been  chairman  of  the 
board  of  commissioners  of  the  House  of  Cor- 
rection and  he  is  also  president  of  the  Adams 
County  Building  Association  and  one  of  the 
directors  of  the  free  public  library.  Dr.  Shawgo 
has  a  large  practice,  but  finds  time  to  devote. to 
the  public  welfare  and  is  a  prominent  and  pop- 
ular citizen. 


DR.  ALBERT  H.  SCHMIDT. 

On  March  4  of  the  present  year  Dr.  Albert  H. 
Schmidt  completed  his  twentieth  year  of  active 
practice  in  Quincy.  Though  still  a  young  man 
he  has  not  only  built  up  a  very  large  and  lucra- 
tive practice,  but  has  attained  a  wide  reputation 
as  a  successful  physician  and  surgeon.  He  was 
born  in  St.  Paul,  Minn.,  February  18,  1858,  and 
came  to  Quincy  with  his  parents  in  early  child- 
hood. His  father,  Dr.  John  Schmidt,  is  one  of 


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this  section,  having  held  a  leading  place  in  his 
profession  for  nearly  sixty  years,  practicing  in 
this  city  over  forty  years.  Dr.  Albert  Schmidt 
received  a  thorough  literary  and  classical  edu- 
cation, after  which  he  received  instruction  in 
medicine  and  surgery  under  his  father's  per- 
sonal direction  for  some  time  and  then  gradu- 
ated at  the  Missouri  Medical  College  in  1879. 
He  has  since  taken  special  courses  in  various 
departments  of  medicine  and  surgery,  devoting 
all  the  time  he  can  command  to  the  investiga- 
tion of  new  methods  and  new  discoveries.  Dr. 
Schmidt  was  married  May  7,  1884,  to  Miss  Susie 
E.  Sterne,  daughter  of  Mr.  W.  C.  W.  Sterne,  one 
of  the  pioneer  residents  of  the  county.  They 
have  one  son  and  one  daughter,  Albert  H.,  Jr., 
and  Florence  G. 

DR.  HENRY  HART. 

Dr.  Henry  Hart  is  one  of  the  successful  physi- 
cians of  Quincy,  and  has  the  highest  standing 
in  his  profession.  He  was  born  at  West  Point, 
Hancock  county,  Illinois,  February  13,  18133,  and 
is  a  son  of  Dr.  J.  F.  Hart,  one  of  the  early  set- 
tlers of  Hancock  county.  Dr.  Hart,  Sr.,  was  one 
of  the  eminent  physicians  of  western  Illinois, 
and  had  practiced  for  thirty-five  years  at  West 


Point,  where  he  died  in  1896.  Henry  was  edu- 
cated in  the  public  schools,  and  took  a  literary 
course  at  Chaddock  College.  He  studied  medi- 
cine at  the  Quincy  College  of  Medicine,  where 
he  graduated  with  the  highest  honors  in  1887. 
He  then  took  a  post-graduate  course  with  full 
hospital  practice  at  the  Post-Graduate  Medical 
School  and  Hospital  of  Chicago,  thus  perfecting 
himself  in  the  science  of  his  chosen  profession. 
He  commenced  the  practice  of  medicine  with  his 
father  in  Hancock  county,  and  remained  with 
him  for  two  years,  when  he  came  to  Quincy, 
opening  his  office  here  in  April,  1890.  His  abil- 
ities were  promptly  recognized  by  the  public 
and  his  professional  associates,  and  he  soon 
assumed  a  prominent  position  in  the  commun- 
ity. In  October,  1890,  he  was  appointed  medi- 
cal officer  by  the  Quincy  Board  of  Health  during 
the  scarlet  fever  and  diphtheria  epidemic .  of 
that  year,  and  his  wise  care,  knowledge  of  the 
nature  of  the  disease  and  wisdom  of  treatment 
did  much  to  check  the  scourges  and  stamp  out 
the  epidemic.  He  is  a  member  of  the  medical 
staff  of  St.  Mary's  Hospital,  physician  to  the 
female  station,  and  is  also  a  member  of  the 
surgical  staff  of  the  hospital  as  gynecologist.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  American  Medical  Associa- 
tion, the  Adams  County  Medical  Society  and  the 
Quincy  Medical  and  Library  Association. 


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REPRESENTATIVE  MEN  AND  HOMES. 


DR.  J.  D.  JUSTICE. 

Dr.  J.  D.  Justice  was  born  on  a  farm  in  Scot- 
land county,  Missouri,  September  22,  1854.  After 
receiving  a  common  school  education  he  gradu- 
ated at  the  Missouri  Medical  College,  March  5, 
1878,  and  practiced  medicine  for  two  years  with 
Dr.  W.  A.  Monroe  at  Memphis,  Mo.  He  then 
located  at  Belle  Plain,  Kan.,  where  he  practiced 
for  several  years.  He  was  the  local  surgeon  for 
the  Missouri  Pacific  Railway  and  a  member  of 
the  Kansas  state  and  county  societies.  During  his 
residence  in  the  west  he  took  a  post-graduate 
course  in  microscopy  in  the  laboratory  of  the 
late  Karl  Heitzmann  in  New  York,  and  attended 
the  surgical  clinics  of  Thomas  H.  Manley  at 
Harlem  Hospital,  John  A.  Wyeth  and  Paul  F. 
Mundie  at  Mt.  Sinai  Hospital,  Charles  A.  Mc- 
Bernie  of  the  Roosevelt  system;  in  addition  he 
attended  the  Vanderbilt  medical  clinics  and  the 
clinics  of  the  Bellevue  Hospital  Medical  Col- 
lege. In  March,  1894,  Dr.  Justice  located  in 
Quincy,  where  he  has  established  an  excellent 
and  successful  practice.  He  is  assistant  chief 
surgeon  at  St.  Mary's  Hospital  and  chief  sur- 
geon of  the  Fairchild  Sanitorium.  He  is  also  a 
member  of  the  International  Association  of 
Railway  Surgeons  and  of  the  Military  Tract 
Medical  Society. 


DR.  OTIS  JOHNSTON. 

Dr.  Otis  Johnston  was  born  in  this  city  July 
29,  1867,  and  graduated  at  the  Quincy  College 
of  Medicine  in  1889.  He  afterwards  attended 
medical  and  surgical  clinics  in  Chicago  and  St. 
Louis,  giving  special  attention  to  advanced  sur- 
gery, having  special  talent  in  surgical  work. 
For  a  time  he  was  engaged  in  practice  with  the 
late  Dr.  Lee,  but  afterwards  occupied  his  pres- 
ent office  and  residence  at  the  southwest  corner 
of  Eighth  and  Hampshire  streets.  For  seven 
years  Dr.  Johnston  has  been  surgeon-in-chief 
to  St.  Mary's  Hospital.  He  was  chief  surgeon 
for  the  Quincy,  Omaha  &  Kansas  City  Railway 
and  has  lately  been  appointed  local  surgeon  of 
the  Port  Arthur  system.  He  is  also  Supreme 
Medical  Examiner  for  the  Degree  of  Honor  for 
Illinois.  He  enjoys  a  very  extensive  and  suc- 
cessful practice  in  surgery,  reaching  out  to  sur- 
rounding towns  and  has  gained  an  enviable 
reputation  in  this  branch  of  his  profession,  as 
well  as  in  medical  practice.  Dr.  Johnston  is  a 
member  of  the  American  Medical  Association, 
the  Mississippi  Valley  Medical  Association,  Illi- 
nois State  and  Adams  County  Medical  Societies 
and  is  an  active  member  of  the  International 
Association  of  Railway  Surgeons.  He  was  mar- 
ried December  1,  1892,  to  Miss  Maud  Harrington 
Grieser,  of  this  city. 


106 


REPRESENTATIVE  MEN  AND  HOMES. 


DR.  F.  E.  NICHOLS. 

Dr.  F.  S.  Nichols  was  born  in  Essex  county, 
New  York,  in  1861.  His  ancestors  for  three 
generations  were  farmers  in  the  Empire  State 
and  in  the  pioneer  days  were  sturdy  soldiers  of 
the  revolution  and  in  the  war  of  1812.  When  a 
boy  the  doctor  moved  with  his  parents  to  north- 
ern Iowa  and  at  seventeen,  having  decided  to 
secure  a  professional  education,  started  out  on 
his  own  responsibility.  Energy  and  pluck,  sup- 
plemented by  constant  hard  work,  afforded  him 
a  three-years'  course  at  the  Nebraska  Wesleyan 
University  and  he  then  graduated  at  the  Hahne- 
mann  Medical  College  in  Chicago.  He  practiced 
at  Piano,  111.,  four  years  and  in  1894  located  in 
this  city,  where  he  has  built  up  a  substantial 
practice,  reaching  out  into  the  neighboring 
towns.  Dr.  Nichols  was  married  in  1890  to  Miss 
Jesse  M.  Ewen,  of  York,  Neb.,  and  they  have 
one  son  and  one  daughter.  His  spacious  offices 


in  the  Dodd  building  are  most  artistically 
arranged  and  furnished,  the  ladies'  reception 
room  being  a  gem  in  pure  Moorish  art. 

DR.  CHARLES  DEWEY  CENTER. 

Dr.  Center  was  born  at  Ottawa,  111.,  July  8, 
1869.  He  is  a  graduate  of  Knox  Academy,  Knox 
College,  Rush  Medical  College  and  served  a  full 
term  of  service  in  the  Presbyterian  Hospital, 
Chicago,  as  house  surgeon.  While  in  the  hos- 
pital he  made  a  specialty  of  female  surgery.  His 
first  practice  was  at  Iron  Belt,  Wis.,  on  the 
Gogebic  range  and  he  then  practiced  for  a  time 
at  the  Palmer  House,  Chicago.  In  April,  1896, 
he  came  to  Quincy.  Dr.  Center  is  on  the  Bless- 
ing Hospital  staff  and  has  built  up  an  extensive 
medical  and  surgical  practice,  in  which  he  has 
been  uniformly  successful.  His  offices  are  in 
the  new  Dodd  building. 


107 


THE  DENTAL  PROFESSION. 


DR.  ROBERT  A.  GARDNER. 


There  are  many  dentists  in  Quincy,  but  none 
of  them  rank  higher  than  Robert  Adams  Gard- 
ner. He  was  born  at  Battle  Creek,  Mich.,  Sep- 
tember 1,  1861,  his  parents  being  of  Scotch 


surgery.  Dr.  Gardner  has  kept  fully  abreast  of 
the  times  in  the  progress  of  his  profession,  and 
his  talents  have  placed  him  in  the  front  rank  of 
dentists.  Dr.  Gardner  is  a  Mason  of  exalted 


descent.  When  a  child  his  parents  moved  to 
Hannibal,  Mo.,  where  he  attended  the  common 
schools.  He  moved  to  Quincy  with  his  parents 
while  a  boy  in  his  teens,  and  this  city  has  been 
his  home  ever  since.  Deciding  upon  dentistry 
as  a  profession,  he  went  into  the  office  of  Dr. 
Frederick  P.  Moore,  where  he  remained  for  six 
years.  In  1888  he  entered  the  American  Dental 
College  at  Chicago,  where  he  took  the  full 
course,  and  graduated  with  high  honors  March 
26,  1890.  He  then  returned  to  Quincy  and 
entered  upon  the  practice  of  his  profession,  in 
which  he  has  been  very  successful.  His  offices 
occupy  a  choice  suite  of  rooms  in  the  Wells 
building,  and  they  are  equipped  with  all  the 
latest  appliances  and  instruments  of  dental 


degree,  being  a  Knight  Templar  of  El  Aksa 
Commandery,  a  member  of  Quincy  Consistory, 
and  a  noble  of  Medina  Temple  of  the  Mystic 
Shrine. 

He  was  married  December  17,  1885,  to  Miss 
Mamie  Oertle,  a  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Joseph  Oertle,  of  this  city.  They  have  two  chil- 
dren— Robert  William  and  Helen — and  a  cordial 
welcome  always  awaits  their  friends  at  their 
home  on  Hampshire  street.  Dr.  Gardner  is  a 
member  of  several  societies,  professional  and 
social,  including  the  Knights  of  Pythias  and 
Royal  Arcanum,  and  his  purse  is  always  open 
to  the  assistance  of  the  needy  and  the  further- 
ance of  any  worthy  cause. 


108 


REPRESENTATIVE  MEN  AND  HOMES. 


DR.  THOMAS  D.  GARDNER. 
Dr.  Thomas  D.  Gardner  was  born  in  Liver- 
pool, England,  in  1862.  His  father,  the  late 
John  Gardner,  was  a  son  of  James  Gardner. 
Esq.,  of  Edinburgh,  one  of  the  most  noted  scien- 
tists of  Europe.  Coming  to  Quincy  with  his 
parents  in  1867,  Dr.  Gardner  obtained  a  compre- 
hensive literary  education  and  then  learned  the 
machinist's  trade  at  the  Gardner  Governor 
Works.  Deciding  to  adopt  the  dental  profes- 
sion he  graduated  from  the  Chicago  College  of 
Dental  Surgery  in  1888  and  took  a  post  graduate 
course.  The  year  following  his  graduation  he 
succeeded  to  the  extensive  practice  of  Dr.  T.  L. 
Gilmer,  at  that  time  the  most  eminent  surgeon 
dentist  in  Quincy  and  he  has  fully  sustained  the 
enviable  reputation  of  his  predecessor.  In  ten 
years  Dr.  Gardner  has  taken  prominent  rank 
among  the  successful  surgeon  dentists  of  the 
state.  He  was  married  in  1895  to  Miss  May 
Barr,  of  this  city. 


DR.  H.  F.  NAUMANN. 

Among  the  younger  dentists  of  Quincy  Dr.  H. 
F.  Naumann  holds  a  prominent  place  in  his  pro- 
fession. He  located  here  in  the  spring  of  1892 
and  in  seven  years  has  established  a  large  and 
prosperous  practice,  being  well  and  favorably 
known  in  many  of  the  surrounding  towns.  Dr. 
Naumann  was  born  at  Belleville,  111.,  March  30, 
1871.  His  professional  education  was  supple- 
mented by  careful  study  at  the  Wesleyan  Uni- 
versity at  Mt.  Pleasant,  Iowa,  and  at  the  Cen- 
tral Wesleyan  College  at  Warrenton,  Mo.  In 
1892  he  graduated  in  surgeon  dentistry  at  the 
Missouri  Dental  College  in  St.  Louis,  the  dental 
department  of  the  Washington  University.  It 
was  then  that  he  opened  his  office  in  this  city, 
where  he  has  since  been  in  active  practice.  He 
is  a  close  student,  keeping  himself  fully  in- 
formed in  all  developments  of  his  chosen  pro- 
fession. Dr.  Naumann  was  married  in  1894  to 
Miss  Nellie  Grimpe,  of  Warsaw,  111. 


109 


IN  THE  SPANISH  WAR. 


CAPT.  HARRY  D.  BLASLAND. 


When  the  call  for  troops  was  issued  by  Presi- 
dent McKinley  in  the  Spanish-American  war, 
Captain  Blasland  was  one  of  the  first  to  volun- 
teer. He  is  the  captain  of  Company  F,  Fifth 
Regiment,  Illinois  National  Guard,  and  his  men 
stood  by  him  almost  to  a  man.  For  twelve 
years  he  has  been  identified  with  the  National 
Guard,  enlisting  first  in  Company  D,  Fifth  Regi- 
ment, in  1887,  as  a  private.  Three  years  later 


ordered  to  Chickamauga  and  was  the  first  vol- 
unteer regiment  in  camp  in  the  south.  This 
was  also  one  of  the  first  regiments  ordered  to 
Cuba,  but  for  some  unexplained  reason  the 
order  was  countermanded  after  the  soldiers 
were  on  the  cars  ready  to  start  to  the  seaboard. 
After  tiresome  weeks  of  waiting,  orders  came 
for  the  Fifth  to  proceed  to  Porto  Rico.  They 
went  to  Newport  News  and  were  loaded  on  a 


he  went  to  St.  Joseph,  Mo.,  and  was  one  of  the 
organizers  of  the  military  company  in  that  city, 
holding  the  position  of  first  sergeant.  On  his 
return  to  Quincy  in  1894,  Company  D  having 
been  mustered  out  of  service,  he  assisted  in 
organizing  Company  F  and  was  elected  first 
lieutenant  on  September  11.  On  October  26. 
1896,  he  was  elected  captain  and  at  once  pro- 
ceeded to  enforce  strict  discipline,  bringing  the 
company  up  to  the  highest  state  of  efficiency. 
For  the  Cuban  war  he  recruited  the  company  to 
106  men  and  in  addition  furnished  a  number  of 
men  for  the  Sixth  Regiment.  After  two  we^eks 
in  camp  at  Springfield,  the  Fifth  Regiment  was 


transport  ready  to  start,  when  they  were  turned 
back  a  second  time  by  the  signing  of  the  peace 
protocol.  From  Newport  News  they  were 
ordered  to  Lexington,  where  they  remained 
until  they  returned  to  Springfield  and  were  mus- 
tered out  October  16,  1898.  Quincy  will  never 
forget  the  farewell  to  her  brave  soldier  boys 
when  they  left  for  the  front  in  the  early  spring 
morning.  Amid  the  booming  of  cannon  and 
ringing  of  bells  the  whole  city  assembled  at  the 
train  to  bid  them  God-speed.  But  the  welcome 
home  eclipsed  even  the  farewell  and  was  such 
a  demonstration  as  the  city  never  before  wit- 
nessed. Her  sons  had  acquitted  themselves 


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REPRESENTATIVE  MEN  AND  HOMES. 


nobly.  They  had  responded  to  every  duty  and 
were  ready  to  offer  their  lives  in  the  cause  of 
liberty.  All  Quincy  was  proud  of  them  and  all 
the  people  did  them  honor.  In  closing  the  mili- 
tary biography  of  Captain  Blasland  it  should  be 
said  that  he  is  an  ideal  soldier  and  a  born  com- 
mander. Of  unusual  physical  strength  and 
physical  courage,  he  is  quiet  and  reserved,  yet 
quick  to  act  and  prompt  to  execute.  He  com- 
mands the  confidence  of  his  men  and  the  respect 
of  his  superior  officers.  In  civil  life  Captain 
Blasland  is  bookkeeper  and  cashier  of  the  Gem 
City  Saw  Mill  Company.  He  is  a  son  of  Mr.  S. 
A  Blasland,  of  St.  Louis,  for  many  years  one  of 
the  leading  and  most  highly  respected  wholesale 
merchants  of  this  city.  Born  in  Boston  August 
2  1870,  he  came  to  Quincy  with  his  parents  in 
1871.  After  attending  the  public  schools  of  this 
city  and  the  Billerica  Academy,  near  Boston, 
he  went  into  the  wholesale  boot  and  shoe  house 
of  Kingsbury,  Blasland  &  Co.  In  1890  he  went 
to  St  Joseph  with  his  father  and  later  accepted 
a  position  with  the  North  River  Shoe  and 
Leather  Company  in  New  York,  in  which  his 
father  was  interested.  In  1893  he  returned  to 
Quincy  and  identified  himself  with  the  saw  mill 
company.  In  July  of  this  year  Captain  Blas- 
land was  appointed  by  President  McKinley  first 
lieutenant  of  the  Thirty-fourth  United  States 
Infantry  and  left  with  his  regiment  for  service 
in  the  Philippines. 


DR.  HENRY  L.  WHIPPLE. 

Dr.  Henry  L.  Whipple,  formerly  first  lieuten- 
ant of  Company  F  and  now  inspector  of  rifle 
practice  for  the  Fifth  Regiment,  has  contributed 
largely  in  establishing  the  enviable  reputation 
which  the  Quincy  company  enjoys  as  one  of  the 
finest  commands  in  the  Illinois  National  Guard. 
Enlisting  in  Company  D  in  1886  as  a  private  he 
was  promoted  to  every  office  up  to  and  includ- 
ing second  lieutenant,  resigning  the  last  named 
office  to  attend  dental  college.  On  his  return 
to  Quincy  he  enlisted  in  Company  F  and  in  1896 
was  elected  first  lieutenant.  Dr.  Whipple  served 
with  distinction  in  the  Cuban  campaign.  He 
was  appointed  commissary  of  the  Fifth  Regi- 
ment by  Colonel  Culver,  serving  on  the  staff 
until  the  regiment  was  mustered  out  and  com- 
manding to  the  fullest  degree  the  respect  and 
confidence  of  his  superior  officers,  as  well  as  the 
good  will  and  esteem  of  the  men  in  the  ranks. 
In  May  of  this  year  he  was  appointed  by  Colonel 
Culver  inspector  of  rifle  practice,  with  the  rank 
of  captain. 


Dr.  Whipple  is  a  son  of  Dr.  A.  A.  Whipple  and 
was  born  at  Salamanca,  N.  Y.,  January  3,  1871. 
He  came  here  with  his  parents  in  1880  and  on 
completing  his  literary  education  graduated 
from  the  Chicago  College  of  Dental  Surgery  in 
1894,  receiving  the  degree  of  D.  D.  S.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  faculty  of  the  Keokuk  Dental 
College,  being  adjunct  professor  of  operative 
dentistry  and  is  also  dental  surgeon  of  Blessing 
Hospital,  and  a  member  of  the  Illinois  State 
Dental  Society.  He  ranks  among  the  leading 
dentists  of  the  city  and  has  built  up  an  exten- 
sive practice.  Dr.  Whipple  was  married  July 
20,  1891,  to  Miss  Alice  C.  Reed,  of  this  city,  and 
they  have  one  son  and  one  daughter. 


LIEUT.  JOHN  R.  McLELLAN. 

Lieutenant  John  R.  McLellan  is  a  southerner 
by  birth,  having  first  seen  the  light  at  Bagdad, 
Florida,  February  9,  1874.  His  father  and 
mother  were  both  natives  of  Scotland,  having 
located  in  Florida  in  1872.  Lieutenant  McLel- 
lan came  north  when  a  young  man  and  in  Sep- 
tember, 1890,  located  in  Quincy,  entering  the 
office  of  the  Quincy,  Omaha  &  Kansas  City 
Railroad.  His  abilities  soon  advanced  him  to 
the  position  of  chief  clerk  in  the  auditor's  office, 
and  when  the  road  was  merged  into  the  Port 
Arthur  system  he  was  transferred  to  the  general 
offices  in  Kansas  City.  He  continued  in  the 


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kEPRESENTATIVE  MEN 


railroad  service  until  he  went  to  the  front  in  the 
war  with  Spain  in  the  spring  of  1898.  He  early 
had  a  liking  for  military  affairs,  and  in  the 
spring  of  1893  enlisted  as  a  private  in  Company 
D,  Fifth  Regiment,  Illinois  National  Guard.  He 
was  soon  appointed  a  sergeant,  and  when  that 
company  was  mustered  out  he  assisted  in  the 
organization  of  Company  F  of  the  same  regi- 
ment in  September,  1894,  and  was  appointed 
third  sergeant.  He  was  steadily  advanced  until 
in  October,  1896,  he  was  elected  second  lieuten- 
ant of  the  company.  When  the  war  with  Spain 
broke  out  and  the  president  called  for  troops 
Lieutenant  McLellan  was  one  of  the  first  to  offer 
his  services  with  the  company.  He  was  com- 
missioned a  lieutenant  in  the  Fifth  Illinois 
Infantry,  and  served  with  that  command  during 
the  war. 

When  the  war  was  over  and  the  regiment  was 
mustered  out  of  the  United  States  service,  Lieu- 
tenant McLellan  returned  to  Quincy,  and 
entered  the  employ  of  the  Adams  Express  Com- 
pany as  cashier  of  the  local  office,  but  in  May 
resigned  this  position  to  accept  a  position  in  the 
general  offices  of  the  Omaha,  Kansas  City  & 
Eastern  Railway.  He  is  an  expert  accountant, 
as  he  was  a  good  soldier,  and  enjoys  the  highest 
degree  of  personal  popularity.  At  the  present 
time  he  is  bookkeeper  and  cashier  for  the  Gem 
City  Saw  Mill  Company. 


ADJUTANT  ALFRED  L.  CASTLE. 

Alfred  L.  Castle  was  born  in  this  city  March 
2,  1875,  and  is  a  son  of  Mr.  Chauncey  H.  Castle. 
After  leaving  the  public  schools  he  attended  the 
Western  Military  Academy  at  Alton,  holding 
every  office  in  the  academy  service  from  cor- 
poral to  first  lieutenant  and  graduating  as. 
brevet  second  lieutenant  in  the  Illinois  National 
Guard.  He  went  into  Company  F  of  this  city 
in  1894  as  second  sergeant  and  sergeant  major 
of  the  battalion.  In  April,  1897,  he  was  elected 
first  lieutenant  and  adjutant  of  the  second  bat- 
talion. When  the  Cuban  war  broke  out  he  went 
into  the  service  as  battalion  adjutant  of  the 
second  batalion,  Fifth  Regiment,  which  position 
he  held  until  the  regiment  was  mustered  out  of 
service.  Early  in  the  war  it  was  generally 
believed  that  additional  troops  would  be 
required  and  Adjutant  Castle  recruited  a  full 
battalion  of  four  companies  ready  for  service, 
but  fortunately  they  were  not  needed.  The  son 
of  a  brave  soldier,  he  is  full  of  loyalty  and  patri- 
otism and  is  an  exceptionally  good  commanding 
officer.  He  is  a  fine  horseman  and  his  courage 
has  never  been  questioned.  Adjutant  Castle 
became  identified  with  the  Comstock-Castle 
Stove  Company  in  1894  and  now  represents  the 
company  on  the  road  in  the  south  and  west. 


112 


THE  BENCH  AND  BAR. 


JUDGE  JOSEPH 

Quincy  has  given  many  eminent  men  to  the 
public  service  of  the  state  and  nation,  and 
among  these  is  Joseph  N.  Carter,  chief  justice 
of  the  supreme  court  of  Illinois.  Judge  Carter 
is  a  quiet  and  unostentatious  gentleman,  always 
the  same  to  friends  old  and  new,  and  yet  he 
ranks  as  one  of  the  ablest  jurists  in  the  country. 
He  is  a  Kentuckian  by  birth,  his  ancestors  com- 
ing from  Virginia.  He  first  saw  the  light  in 


N.  CARTER. 

Michigan  at  Ann  Arbor.  He  graduated  there  in 
1868,  and  came  to  Quincy  in  1869,  being 
admitted  to  the  bar  the  same  year.  The  next 
year  he  formed  a  law  partnership  with  William 
H.  Govert,  which  continued  uninterruptedly 
until  1879,  when  Judge  Sibley  became  a  member 
of  the  firm,  retiring  in  1884.  In  1888  Mr.  Theo- 
dore Pape  was  admitted  to  membership  and  the 
firm  of  Carter,  Govert  &  Pape  was  continued 


Hardin  county,  Kentucky,  and  was  the  fourth 
of  ten  children  born  to  William  P.  and  Martha 
(Mays)  Carter.  His  grandfather,  James  Carter, 
was  a  Virginian,  and  traced  his  ancestry  back  to 
England.  His  mother  was  also  a  native  of  the 
Old  Dominion.  In  1857,  when  the  future  jurist 
was  fourteen  years  of  age,  his  parents  removed 
to  Charleston,  Coles  county,  Illinois,  and  he 
came  with  them.  A  year  later  they  removed  to 
Douglas  county,  this  state.  He  acquired  his 
early  education  at  Big  Springs,  Ky.,  and  Tus- 
cola,  111.,  and  then  taught  a  country  school  for 
three  years.  He  entered  Illinois  College  at 
Jacksonville  in  1863,  graduating  in  1866,  and 
having  decided  upon  the  law  as  a  profession 
entered  the  law  department  of  the  University  of 


until  Judge  Carter's  election  to  the  supreme 
bench  in  1894. 

Judge  Carter  is  a  republican  in  politics,  and  in 
1878  was  elected  as  a  member  of  the  lower  house 
of  the  thirty-first  general  assembly.  So  ably 
did  he  serve  his  constituents  that  he  was  re- 
elected  in  1880.  In  1882  he  was  nominated  by 
his  party  for  state  senator,  and  so  great  wai 
his  personal  popularity  that  while  the  district 
was  democratic  by  1,500  he  was  defeated  by  less 
than  500. 

In  1894  Judge  Carter  was  nominated  by  the 
republicans  of  the  Fourth  supreme  judicial  dis- 
trict as  their  candidate  for  the  supreme  court 
to  succeed  Judge  Simeon  P.  Shope.  The  district 
was  democratic  by  12,000,  being  composed  of 


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twelve  counties.  Judge  Carter's  abilities  were 
so  fully  recognized  and  his  personal  popularity 
was  so  great  that  that  majority  was  overcome 
and  he  was  elected  by  4,500.  The  campaign 
attracted  attention  all  over  the  country,  and 
Judge  Carter  at  once  sprang  into  national  fame. 
His  services  on  the  supreme  bench  have  been 
brilliant,  and  in  1898  he  became  chief  justice  of 
that  august  tribunal. 

Judge  Carter  was  married  in  1879  to  Miss  Nel- 
lie Barrell,  of  Springfield,  111.  Her  father, 
George  Barrell,  was  a  famous  sea  captain,  and 
had  visited  every  habitable  portion  of  the  globe. 
They  have  three  children — Henry  B.,  who  is 
now  at  Princeton  College,  William  Douglas  and 
Josephine. 

JUDGE  JOHN  C.  BROADY. 

Judge  John  C.  Broady  is  a  fair  example  of 
what  can  be  accomplished  under  adverse  condi- 
tions and  by  individual  effort  and  determina- 
tion. He  was  born  on  a  farm  near  Liberty,  in 
this  county,  June  29,  1849.  In  his  boyhood  he 
was  large  of  his  age,  strong  and  willing  to  work 
and  more  than  the  ordinary  share  of  farm  duties 
devolved  on  him.  Fond  of  books  he  early  de- 
termined to  secure  an  education.  Up  to  the 
beginning  of  his  twenty-first  year,  however,  his 


schooling  was  confined  to  the  district  school 
and  Quincy  schools  and  such  reading  and  study 
as  he  could  combine  with  his  work.  Then  he 
taught  school  in  Richfield  township  for  a  short 
time,  saving  money  enough  to  enter  the  law 
department  of  the  Michigan  University.  The 
libraries  afforded  opportunities  for  gratifying 
his  taste  for  books  and  he  was  a  constant  reader 
and  a  close  student.  After  graduating  he  read 
law  for  a  time  with  Judge  Thompson  and  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  June,  1874.  As  Judge 
Thompson  used  to  say,  he  was  as  poor  as  a 
church  mouse.  But  he  had  a  thorough  knowl- 
edge of  the  law  and  was  a  safe  adviser  and 
counselor.  Applying  himself  closely,  business 
came  to  him  and  success  in  his  profession  was 
not  long  delayed.  He  had  never  been  known 
as  an  active  politician  and  had  never  held  office 
or  been  a  candidate  for  office  until  he  was  nomi- 
nated for  circuit  judge  in  the  democratic  con- 
vention of  1897.  On  the  bench  Judge  Broady  is 
a  painstaking  and  impartial  judge.  He  has  a 
marked  judicial  turn  of  mind,  close  application 
and  attention  to  details  being  strong  character- 
istics. He  is  interested  in  important  business 
enterprises  in  Quincy  and  has  gained  more  than 
the  ordinary  degree  of  success  in  the  profes- 
sion to  which  he  is  devoted. 


JUDGE  CARL  E.  EPLER. 

Judge  Carl  E.  Epler,  county  judge  of  Adams 
county,  is  one  of  the  youngest  jurists  in  the 
state,  but  his  services  on  the  bench  have  won 
him  a  most  enviable  reputation.  He  was  born 
at  Jacksonville,  111.,  his  father,  Judge  Cyrus 
Epler,  served  on  the  circuit  bench  for  many 
years.  Judge  Epler  graduated  at  Illinois  Col- 
lege at  Jacksonville  in  1876,  and  was  the  vale- 
dictorian of  his  class.  He  took  a  course  at  Yale 
in  1877  and  1878,  receiving  the  degree  of  M.  A. 
from  that  famous  college,  and  then  studied  law 
in  the  University  of  Michigan  at  Ann  Arbor. 
He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  Illinois  in  June, 
1879,  and  came  to  Quincy  in  1880,  beginning  the 
practice  of  law  in  the  office  of  the  late  Colonel 
W.  W.  Berry. 

In  politics  Judge  Epler  is  a  democrat,  and 
soon  became  one  of  the  local  leaders  of  that 
party.  He  was  elected  city  attorney  in  1881, 
and  served  for  three  successive  terms  in  that 
office.  During  his  term  of  office  he  represented 
the  city  in  some  very  important  litigation,  in- 
cluding the  city  bond  cases  and  the  old  water 
works  contract,  in  which  he  successfully  de- 
fended the  city  and  materially  aided  in  the  mak- 


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ing  of  new  and  more  favorable  contracts.  He 
was  instrumental  in  police  court  reform,  and 
drafted  the  ordinance  making  the  police  magis- 
trate a  salaried  officer,  instead  of  being  paid  by 
fees.  In  1885  Judge  Epler  revised  the  city  code, 
and  in  1886  placed  $150,000  of  Quincy  refunding 
bonds  at  4^  per  cent,  being  the  first  Quincy 
bonds  floated  at  that  low  rate  of  interest. 

He  was  elected  state's  attorney  in  1891,  and 
as  such  conducted  the  prosecution  of  W.  J. 
Jamieson  for  the  murder  of  Charles  Aaron.  The 
case  was  carried  to  the  United  States  supreme 
court  by  the  defense,  but  the  state  won,  and 
Jamieson  was  hanged.  Among  other  important 
cases  conducted  by  him  was  the  famous  Knox 
shooting  affair,  and  the  perjury  cases  growing 
out  of  it. 

Judge  Epler  was  elected  county  judge  in  No- 
vember, 1894,  defeating  for  the  nomination  of 
his  party  the  previous  summer  Judge  B.  F.  Ber- 
rian,  who  had  been  county  judge  for  seventeen 
years.  He  was  re-elected  in  1898  for  another 
term  of  four  years.  Some  very  important  cases 
have  come  before  Judge  Epler  since  his  eleva- 
tion to  the  bench,  and  his  depisions  have  given 
satisfaction.  He  was  the  first  judge  in  the  statp 
to  pass  on  the  validity  of  the  inheritance  tax 
law,  and  his  decision  upholding  that  law  has 
since  been  affirmed  by  the  supreme  court. 


HON.  WILLIAM  SCHLAGENHAUF. 
The  Hon.  William  Schlagenhauf,  republican 
member  of  the  general  assembly  from  this  dis- 
trict, was  born  in  Belleville,  111.,  March  8,  1867. 
He  graduated  from  the  Mt.  Pleasant,  Iowa,  Ger- 
man College  and  from  the  law  department  of 
the  Michigan  State  University.  In  June,  1890, 
he  opened  an  office  for  tho  practice  of  law  in 
this  city  with  the  late  Colonel  Berry  and  has 
gained  for  himself  an  enviable  reputation  at  the 
bar.  Exercising  great  care  in  preparing  his 
cases,  a  constant  student  and  a  tireless  worker, 
his  comprehensive  knowledge  of  the  law  makes 
him  unusually  successful  in  his  practice.  He 
was  assistant  city  attorney  under  Mr.  Homer 
Swope.  In  1892  he  was  president  of  the  South 
Side  Republican  Club,  the  largest  political 
organization  ever  formed  in  Quincy,  and  in 
1896  was  secretary  of  that  organization.  Last 
fall  he  was  elected  to  the  state  legislature  and 
though  one  of  the  younger  members  has  taken 
prominent  part  in  framing  legislation.  He  is 
chairman  of  the  committee  on  Soldiers'  Home 
and  Soldiers'  Orphans'  Home  and  a  member  of 
the  committee  on  claims,  elections,  judiciary, 
revenue,  municipal  corporations,  state  institu- 
tions and  fish  and  game,  a  list  that  includes 
several  of  the  most  important  committees  of  the 
house.  Mr.  Schlagenhauf  was  married  in  1892 
to  Miss  Lillie  M.  Uecke,  of  this  city,  and  they 
have  one  son  and  one  daughter. 


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GEN.  ELISHA  B.  HAMILTON. 


As  soldier,  lawyer  and  citizen,  the  name  of 
General  Elisha  B.  Hamilton  ranks  among  the 
foremost  of  Quincy  men  who  have  won  a  repu- 
tation which  extends  beyond  the  borders  of  the 
state.  He  was  born  at  Carthage,  Hancock 
County,  Illinois,  October  5,  1838,  and  his  life 
has  been  a  busy  one  since  his  earliest  boyhood. 
His  father,  Artois  Hamilton,  was  born  at  Tol- 
land,  Mass.,  and  his  mother,  Atta  Bentley,  at 


was  the  youngest  of  six  children,  and  his  early 
boyhood  was  spent  among  the  thrilling  scenes 
of  the  Mormon  war,  which  stirred  the  state  at 
that  time.  He  saw  Joseph  Smith  when  he 
jumped  from  the  window  of  the  Carthage  jail 
and  was  killed  by  the  mob.  He  had  two  broth- 
ers, Marvin  and  William,  in  the  company  of 
Carthage  Greys,  which  guarded  the  jail  the  day 
•the  prophets  were  killed,  and  participated  in 


Mayfield,  N.  Y.  They  were  married  February 
22,  1827,  and  moved  to  Carthage  in  1835.  Here 
the  father  purchased  a  large  tract  of  land, 
which  he  made  into  a  number  of  farms.  For 
many  years  he  kept  the  "vluage  tavern"  at 
Carthage,  which  was  known  far  and  wide,  and 
was  the  resort  for  Lincoln,  Douglas,  Mitchell, 
Judge  Logan,  O.  H.  Browning,  Bushnell  and  all 
the  prominent  lawyers  and  public  men  of  that 
day  who  visited  this  part  of  the  state  in  cam- 
paigns or  on  the  regular  circuit. 

It  was  in  this  tavern  that  the  bodies  of  Joseph 
and  Hiram  Smith,  the  Mormon  prophets,  were 
laid  out  on  the  night  of  their  killing  at  the 
Carthage  jail  June  27,  1844,  and  on  the  following 
morning  General  Hamilton's  father  took  the 
bodies  of  the  dead  Mormon  leaders  and  deliv- 
ered them  to  their  friends  at  Nauvoo.  Elisha 


what  became  known  as  the  battle  of  Nauvoo  in 
the  fall  of  1846. 

As  a  boy,  General  Hamilton  worked  on  the 
farm  in  spring  and  summer,  and  attended  the 
country  school  in  winter,  that  being  before  the 
days  of  public  schools,  and  when  the  teachers 
"hired  out"  and  "boarded  'round."  He  lost  his 
mother  in  the  cholera  epidemic  of  1851.  The 
dread  scourge  entered  the  family  in  July  of  that 
year,  and  the  mother,  a  brother,  sister  and.  two 
aunts  died  within  a  few  days.  Four  persons 
died  in  the  house  the  first  day,  all  having  been 
apparently  well  in  the  morning. 

In  the  fall  of  1856  he  entered  Illinois  College 
at  Jacksonville,  and  has  ever  retained  a  warm 
spot  in  his  heart  for  his  alma  mater.  The  trip 
from  Carthage  to  Jacksonville  was  a  rather 
tedious  one  in  those  days,  the  young  student 


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going  by  carriage  from  Carthage  to  Plymouth, 
from  there  by  the  old  Northern  Cross  Railroad 
to  Camp  Point,  where  he  stayed  over  night, 
thence  by  stage  east,  breakfast  at  Mt.  Sterling, 
dinner  at  Meredosia,  and  on  to  Naples,  there  in 
the  afternoon  he  took  the  Great  Western  Rail- 
road to  Jacksonville,  being  a  day  and  a  half  on 
the  way.  He  graduated  at  Illinois  College  June 
21,  1860,  with  the  degree  of  B.  S.,  and  on  June  6, 
1873,  the  college  voluntarily  conferred  upon  him 
the  degree  of  A.  B.  In  college  he  was  a  member 
of  the  Phi  Alpha  Society,  and  is  ever  a  welcome 
visitor  there  now,  the  college  counting  him 
among  the  most  distinguished  of  its  alumni. 

General  Hamilton  early  took  an  interest  in 
military  matters  and  before  the  civil  war  he 
was  for  three  years  a.  member  of  the  Carthage 
Guards,  a  noted  military  company  of  those  days. 
In  August,  1862,  at  Carthage,  he  enlisted  in  what 
became  Company  B,  One  Hundred  and  Eigh- 
teenth Illinois  Infantry  Volunteers,  and  served 
with  that  regiment  until  the  fall  of  1865,  partici- 
pating with  it  in  all  the  battles,  where  its  valor 
made  it  one  of  the  famous  commands  of  the 
western  armies.  He  won  distinction  in  a  num- 
ber of  hard-fought  engagements,  and  on  Novem- 
ber 14,  1863,  he  was  commissioned  first  lieuten- 
ant of  his  company  for  gallant  and  meritorious 
service.  He  was  mustered  out  in  October,  1865, 
having  served  over  three  years  continuously 
with  his  regiment  at  the  front,  participating  in 
Sherman's  first  attack  on  Vicksburg,  Grant's 
campaign  around  and  siege  of  Vicksburg,  the 
siege  and  capture  of  Jackson,  Miss.,  Franklin's 
march  into  western  Louisiana,  and  battle  of 
Grand  Couteau,  Davidson's  famous  raid,  and 
numerous  cavalry  raids  and  fights.  Near  the 
close  of  his  service  he  was  assistant  adjutant 
general  on  the  staff  of  General  Fonda,  com- 
manding the  district  of  Baton  Rouge,  La. 

General  Hamilton  continued  his  interest  in 
military  matters  after  leaving  the  United  States 
service,  and  in  1872  he  assisted  in  organizing 
the  well-known  company  of  Quincy  National 
Guards,  in  which  he  was  commissioned  first 
lieutenant  by  Governor  Beveridge  January  14, 
1873,  and  became  captain  in  1876.  He  was  in 
command  of  the  Eighth  Illinois  Infantry  at  East 
St.  Louis  during  the  great  strike  of  1877,  and  for 
his  efficient  services  there  was  promoted  to 
brigadier  general  by  Governor  Cullom,  his  com- 
mission bearing  date  February  26,  1878.  He 
was  successively  appointed  inspector  general  for 
the  state  of  Illinois  by  Governors  Cullom,  Ham- 


ilton and  Oglesby,  and  served  until  October, 
1887,  when  he  resigned.  His  efficient  services 
in  the  organization  and  perfection  of  the  Illinois 
National  Guard  have  been  fully  appreciated  by 
all  the  commanders  of  the  state  troops. 

General  Hamilton  moved  to  Quincy  in  1866, 
and  entered  the  office  of  Warren  &  Wheat, 
where  he  read  law,  and  was  admitted  to  prac- 
tice by  the  supreme  court  of  Illinois  in  January, 
1869.  He  has  been  a  member  of  the  firms  of 
Warren,  Wheat  &  Hamilton,  Wheat,  Ewing  & 
Hamilton,  and  Ewing  &  Hamilton,  and  is  at 
present  the  senior  member  of  the  firm  of  Ham- 
ilton &  Woods,  all  of  which  firms  have  been  well 
known  for  their  ability  and  business.  He  prac- 
ticed law  at  Kansas  City,  Mo.,  from  the  summer 
cf  1887  to  the  spring  of  1891. 

In  politics  General  Hamilton  is  an  aggressive 
republican  and  wields  a  powerful  influence  in 
the  councils  of  that  party.  He  has  never  held 
an  elective  office,  although  repeatedly  urged  to 
permit  the  use  of  his  name  for  high  position. 
In  1868  President  Johnson  appointed  him  sur- 
veyor of  customs  of  the  port  of  Quincy  and 
President  Grant  reappointed  him  in  1872.  He 
was  successively  appointed  deputy  United 
States  marshal  for  this  section  of  the  state  by 
Marshals  Tanner  and  Wheeler. 

General  Hamilton  is  a  prominent  Grand  Army 
man.  and  has  been  an  aide  upon  the  staffs  of 
many  of  the  national  commanders.  He  was 
senior  vice-commander  of  the  department  of 
Illinois  in  1893-4,  and  is  at  present  judge  advo- 
cate of  the  department.  He  has  served  a  num- 
ber of  terms  as  commander  of  John  Wood  Post, 
No.  96.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Society  of  the 
Army  A  the  Tennessee,  and  at  one  time  vice 
president,  and  is  also  a  member  of  the  Loyal 
Legion.  A  Mason  of  high  degree,  he  is  a  mem- 
ber of  Quincy  lodge,  Quincy  chapter,  R.  A.  M., 
and  El  Aksa  commandery  of  Knights  Templar. 
He  waa  a  member  of  the  Encore  club,  and  part 
of  the  time  president,  a  literary  society  which 
existed  here  many  years,  and  from  which  sprang 
the  present  splendid  public  library.  With 
Messrs.  Emery,  Holmes,  Bishop,  Mills,  Keath, 
Keyes,  Doyen,  McFaden  and  others,  he  gave 
courses  of  lectures  and  raised  large  sums  of 
money,  which  were  turned  into  the  then  small 
treasury  of  the  public  library,  the  nucleus  of 
the  present  grand  institution.  General  Hamil- 
ton was  married  September  10,  1878,  to  Miss 
Mary  E.  Fisk,  of  this  city,  and  they  have  one 
son  and  one  daughter,  Elisha  B.  Hamilton,  Jr., 
now  at  Illinois  College,  and  Lucy  A. 


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WILLIAM  H.  GOVERT. 

One  of  the  ablest  members  of  the  Quincy  bar 
is  William  H.  Govert,  senior  member  of  the 
well-known  law  firm  of  Govert  &  Pape.  He 
was  born  in  Fort  Madison,  Iowa,  September  10, 
1844,  and  graduated  with  high  honors  in  the 
literary  department  of  Illinois  College  at  Jack- 
sonville in  1867.  He  then  became  a  student  in 
the  law  department  of  the  University  of  Michi- 
gan at  Ann  Arbor,  where  he  graduated  in  1870. 
Immediately  after  his  graduation  he  came  to 
Quincy,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  the  same 
year,  1870,  commencing  the  practice  of  his  pro- 
fession with  Joseph  N.  Carter,  the  firm  name 
being  Carter  &  Govert.  The  firm  continued 
without  change  until  1888,  when  Theodore  Pape 
was  admitted,  the  name  then  becoming  Carter, 
Govert  &  Pape,  and  when  Judge  Carter  was 
chosen  to  the  bench  of  the  supreme  court  in 
1894  it  became  Govert  &  Pape. 

Mr.  Govert  is  recognized  as  one  of  the  bril- 
liant attorneys  of  Illinois,  and  his  practice  is  a 
most  lucrative  one.  He  was  elected  city  attor- 
ney in  1872,  and  served  two  terms.  He  was 
then  elected  state's  attorney,  succeeding  Judge 
W.  G.  Ewing,  in  1876,  and  served  two  terms  in 
that  position.  He  is  also  actively  interested  in 
several  of  the  largest  financial  and  industrial 
institutions  of  Quincy.  He  is  one  of  the  propri- 
etors of  the  State  Street  Bank,  and  also  a  stock- 


holder in  the  Ricker  National  and  the  Quincy 
National  Banks.  He  is  president  of  the  Collins 
Plow  Company,  president  of  the  J.  R.  Little 
Metal  Wheel  Company,  president  of  the  Quincy 
Corn  Planter  Company,  president  of  the  Quincy 
Pressed  Brick  Company,  a  director  in  the  Gem 
City  Stove  Company  and  a  director  of  the  F.  W. 
Menke  Stone  and  Lime  Company. 

He  was  married  September  25,  1873,  to  Miss 
Rosa  F.  Wood,  of  Jacksonville,  and  their  home 
at  Twelfth  and  Vine  streets  is  one  of  the  pleas- 
antest  in  the  city.  They  have  one  son  and  two 
daughters,  Anna  and  Edith.  The  son,  George, 
graduated  with  honors  at  Yale  University  and  is 
now  studying  law  at  the  University  of  Michigan. 


L.  E.  EMMONS,  SR. 

Mr.  L.  E.  Emmons,  the  eminent  attorney,  was 
born  in  New  York  City,  but  came  west  when 
quite  a  boy,  and  was  reared  on  a  farm  near 
Bristol,  111.  He  went  to  the  district  school  in 
the  winter  time,  and  attended  two  terms  at  Mt. 
Morris  Seminary.  At  twenty-three  he  com- 
menced the  study  of  law  in  the  law  department 
of  the  old  Chicago  University,  graduated  in  1861, 
and  was  admitted  to  practice  by  the  supreme 
court  the  same  year.  He  practiced  his  profes- 


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sion  in  Kendall  county  until  1864,  when  he  en- 
listed in  the  army  and  helped  to  organize  the 
One  Hundred  and  Forty-seventh  Illinois  Infan- 
try. He  was  commissioned  first  lieutenant,  but 
was  assigned  by  the  department  to  detached 
service  as  ordnance  officer,  subsequently  as 
assistant  commissary,  in  which  position  he 
served  until  discharged  in  March,  1866.  He  was 
married  to  Miss  Fletcher  in  Marietta,  Ga.,  in 
May,  1866,  and  came  to  Quincy  in  September  of 
that  year.  He  at  once  opened  a  law  office,  and 
has  been  in  active  practice  here  ever  since,  ris- 
ing to  a  most  eminent  position  at  the  bar,  a 
place  which  has  been  won  by  his  comprehensive 
knowledge  of  the  law  and  his  conscientious  care 
of  the  interests  of  his  clients.  His  first  partners 
were  General  B.  M.  Prentiss,  the  hero  of  the 
battle  of  Shiloh,  and  M.  R.  Buttz.  In  1875  Mr. 
Emmons  formed  a  partnership  with  the  late 
Senator  Albert  W.  Wells,  which  continued  to 
the  death  of  the  latter  in  1896,  and  he  then  took 
his  son,  L.  E.  Emmons,  Jr.,  as  his  partner. 

Mr.  Emmons  has  been  a  member  of  the  Epis- 
copal church  since  1872,  and  on  the  formation  of 
the  Diocese  of  Quincy  was  appointed  by  the 
bishop  chancellor  of  the  Cathedral  of  St.  John. 
He  has  been  junior  warden  of  that  church  for 
the  past  ten  years.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Emmons  have 
two  children  —  one  son,  his  law  partner,  and  one 
daughter. 


JAMES  N.  SPRIGG. 

Mr.  James  N.  Sprigg  was  born  in  a  log  house 
on  a  farm  in  Schuyler  county,  August  15,  1850. 
His  early  life  was  spent  at  hard  farm  work, 
plowing  bare-footed,  and  a  man's  work  about 
the  farm  being  his  daily  task  during  his  early 
boyhood.  His  early  education  and  the  founda- 
tion for  his  later  study  was  obtained  at  home. 
The  teacher  of  the  district  school  usually 
boarded  at  his  house  and  assisted  him  in  his 
lessons  in  the  evening  after  his  work  was  done, 
his  love  for  books  often  inspiring  him  to  study 
far  into  the  night.  In  1876  he  graduated  from 
Harvard  University  with  the  degree  of  L.  L.  B. 
and  was  admitted  to  the  Massachusetts  bar  on 
public  examination  in  open  court.  Soon  after 
he  located  in  Quincy,  being  admitted  by  the 
supreme  court  to  the  Illinois  bar  and  began  the 
practice  of  his  profession.  He  afterwards 
became  a  member  of  the  bar  of  the  United 
States  district  court,  the  circuit,  appellate  and 
supreme  courts  and  has  since  been  engaged  in 
general  practice.  For  about  two  years  after 
coming  to  Quincy  he  was  a  member  of  the  firm 


of  Keath  &  Sprigg  and  was  then  alone  until 
1886,  when  the  firm  of  Sprigg  &  Anderson  was 
formed,  continuing  until  1896,  with  the  excep- 
tion of  two  years,  when  the  title  was  Sprigg, 
Anderson  &  Vandeventer.  In  association  with 
Mr.  Anderson,  Mr.  Sprigg  acted  for  several 
years  as  corporation  counsel  for  the  city.  In 
1893  he  succeeded  the  late  Mr.  Wheat  as  county 
attorney  for  Adams  county,  by  appointment  of 
the  board  of  supervisors,  which  position  he  still 
holds.  Politically,  Mr.  Sprigg  inherited  the 
faith  of  the  old-fashioned  abolitionists,  early 


acquiring  prejudices  against  human  slavery,  all 
tendency  thereto  being  hateful  and  abhorrent  to 
him.  Up  to  Cleveland's  second  term  he  had 
voted  the  republican  ticket  and  in  the  last 
national  campaign  he  endorsed  the  democratic 
platform  adopted  at  Chicago,  being  now  one  of 
the  active  members  of  that  party.  In  politics, 
as  in  business  affairs,  Mr.  Sprigg  has  the  cour- 
age of  his  convictions  and  is  positive  and  out- 
spoken in  all  things.  In  his  profession  he  has 
been  uniformly  successful  and  is  one  of  the 
prominent  members  of  the  Illinois  bar.  Mr. 
Sprigg  was  married  June  27,  1889,  to  Miss  Annie 
C.  Gilman,  of  Haverhill,  Mass.  Besides  their 
beautiful  and  hospitable  home  on  East  Jersey 
street  they  have  a  model  farm  east  of  Quincy, 
which  is  the  scene  of  most  delightful  entertain- 
ments. 


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WILLIAM  A.  RICHARDSON. 
The  Hon.  William  A.  Richardson  is  a  worthy 
son  of  one  of  the  distinguished  men  of  Illinois. 
His  father,  the  late  Colonel  William  A.  Richard- 
son, was  for  many  years  the  associate  of  Lin- 
coln, Douglas  and  Browning  and  gained  distinc- 
tion as  a  soldier  and  as  a  statesman.  In  both 
branches  of  the  state  legislature,  in  both 
branches  of  Congress  and  in  the  councils  of  the 
state  and  nation  he  wielded  a  commanding  in- 
fluence. He  came  to  Illinois  from  Kentucky  in 
]831  and  five  years  later  was  elected  to  the  state 
legislature  from  Schuyler  county.  In  1838  he 
was  chosen  a  member  of  the  state  senate  and  in 
1844,  being  once  more  a  member  of  the  general 
assembly,  was  elected  speaker.  The  same  year 
he  was  one  of  the  presidential  electors  on  the 
democratic  ticket.  When  the  Mexican  war 
broke  out,  although  just  at  the  spring-tide  of 
political  preferment,  he  resolved  to  espouse  the 
cause  of  his  country  on  the  field  of  strife.  Rais- 
ing a  company  he  at  once  went  to  the  front  and 
did  noble  service.  On  the  field  of  Buena  Vista 
he  was  promoted  to  the  position  of  lieutenant 
colonel  for  gallant  and  heroic  conduct.  On  his 
return  home  he  was  elected  to  congress  to  fill 
the  vacancy  occasioned  by  the  resignation  of 
Judge  Douglas,  serving  for  ten  years,  a  recog- 
nized leader  of  his  party  in  that  body.  In  1856 
he  was  the  democratic  nominee  for  governor, 


being  defeated  by  Governor  Bissell  by  only  3,000 
votes.  In  1857  he  was  appointed  governor  of 
Nebraska  by  President  Buchanan.  Returning 
to  Quincy  he  was  again  elected  to  congress  in 
1860,  serving  until  1863,  when  he  was  chosen 
United  States  senator  to  fill  the  vacancy  occa- 
sioned by  the  death  of  Judge  Douglas.  For 
more  than  thirty  years  Colonel  Richardson 
occupied  a  commanding  position  in  shaping  the 
affairs  of  the  state  and  nation.  He  had  few 
equals  on  the  stump  and  few  men  had  greater 
influence  with  the  masses.  His  death,  December 
27,  1875,  was  universally  mourned. 

The  Hon.  William  A.  Richardson,  Jr.,  was 
born  in  Washington  June  24,  1848,  while  his 
father  was  in  congress.  After  completing  a 
comprehensive  scientific  education  he  accepted 
a  position  as  engineer  in  the  survey  and  con- 
struction of  the  railroad  from  Quincy  to  Louisi- 
ana. Later  he  was  assistant  engineer  and  resi- 
dent engineer  in  the  construction  of  the  Sni 
Levee,  in  this  work  establishing  what  were 
called  the  Richardson  levels.  He  was  also  en- 
gaged in  the  survey  and  construction  of  the 
railway  from  Chillicothe  to  Omaha,  now  a  part 
of  the  Port  Arthur  System;  in  the  survey  and 
construction  of  the  Atchison  branch  of  the  Han- 
nibal &  St.  Joseph  Railway,  built  by  General 
Singleton,  and  also  had  an  appointment  as  en- 
gineer on  the  Northern  Pacific,  which  he 
resigned  to  return  to  Quincy.  Here  he  read  law 
with  the  Hon.  O.  H.  Browning,  being  admitted 
to  the  bar  in  1876.  In  April  of  that  year  he  was 
appointed  master  in  chancery,  serving  nine 
years,  was  elected  city  attorney  in  1878-9  and  a 
member  of  the  Illinois  legislature  in  1880.  From 
1885  to  1891  he  was  United  States  commissioner, 
resigning  the  office  owing  to  impaired  health 
and  engaging  in  extensive  farming  interests  in 
Minnesota,  retaining  his  residence  in  this  city. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  board  of  directors  of  the 
public  library  and  has  always  manifested  a  deep 
interest  in  all  public  affairs.  January  3,  1881, 
Mr.  Richardson  was  married  to  Miss  Anna  D. 
McFadon. 


FRANKLIN  M.  McCANN. 
Mr.  Franklin  M.  McCann,  one  of  the  mpst 
prominent  of  the  younger  attorneys  of  Quincy, 
is  a  native  of  this  county,  having  been  born  at 
Columbus.  When  he  was  a  few  months  old  his 
parents  moved  to  Quincy,  and  this  city  has  been 
his  home  ever  since.  His  father,  Wesley  D. 
McCann,  was  one  of  the  pioneers  of  Adams 
county,  coming  from  Kentucky  and  settling  at 
Columbus,  which  at  that  time  gave  promise  of 
being  quite  a  city.  Quincy  was  at  that  time  a 


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small  village,  and  seeing  that  it  was  destined 
to  be  the  greater  he  moved  here,  and  this  city 
was  his  home  until  his  death  in  1890.  Wesley 
D.  McCann  was  a  strong  character  in  every  way, 
and  while  he  was  unostentatious  in  all  his  meth- 
ods he  left  his  impress  upon  the  community. 
He  despised  dishonorable  methods  in  any  direc- 
tion, was  kind  to  the  poor,  whom  he  was  contin- 
ually helping,  loved  his  home  and  his  family, 
and  left  them  the  rich  inheritance  of  a  good 
name.  His  widow,  the  mother  of  the  subject  of 
this  sketch,  still  resides  in  the  old  family  home- 
stead on  East  Maine  street.  Franklin  McCann 
finished  his  literary  education  at  Illinois  Col- 
lege at  Jacksonville,  and  graduated  with  high 
honors.  He  then  studied  law,  and  when  twenty- 
four  years  of  age  was  admitted  to  the  bar  and 
commenced  the  practice  of  his  profession.  He 
has  devoted  himself  wholly  to  it,  and  has  built 
up  a  lucrative  practice.  He  has  kept  aloof  from 
politics,  and  has  never  been  a  candidate  for  any 
office,  although  he  has  been  often  urged  to  per- 
mit the  use  of  his  name.  His  success  has  been 
attained  through  his  own  individual  efforts, 
unaided  by  politics  or  otherwise,  and  his  splen- 
did practice  and  high  standing  at  the  bar  offer 
the  greatest  inspiration  to  young  men  just 
entering  upon  the  most  arduous  of  professions. 
Mr.  McCann  was  married  in  1893  to  Miss  Luella 
Adams  at  Topeka,  Kan.,  and  they  have  one 
child,  an  infant  daughter,  Edith  Adams  McCann. 


GEORGE  H.  WILSON. 

Mr.  George  H.  Wilson,  state's  attorney  for 
Adams  county  and  a  member  of  the  law  firm  of 
Wilson  &  Wall,  is  a  son  of  the  Rev.  H.  Wilson, 
member  of  the  Illinois  conference  of  the  M.  E. 
church,  and  was  born  at  Barry,  111.,  November  7, 
1866.  He  graduated  from  the  Pittsfield  High 
School  in  1883  and  from  Illinois  College  in  1888, 
securing  the  highest  honors  of  his  class,  the 
valedictory  and  receiving  the  degree  of  A.  B.  In 
1891  he  received  the  degree  of  A.  M.  from  the 
same  institution.  In  1888-9  he  held  the  position 
of  assistant  principal  of  the  Carrollton,  111., 
schools  under  David  Felmley,  now  professor  of 
mathematics  in  the  State  Normal  University. 
Deciding  to  adopt  the  legal  profession  Mr.  Wil- 
son attended  Union  College  of  Law  and  studied 
under  Mr.  James  F.  Carrott,  being  admitted  to 
the  bar  in  June,  1891.  In  1896  he  was  elected 
state's  attorney  for  Adams  county  on  the  repub- 
lican ticket.  A  successful  attorney  and  a  safe 
adviser,  he  has  already  attained  prominence  in 
his  profession  and  his  administration  of  the  im- 
portant and  responsible  office  which  he  holds 
is  giving  very  general  satisfaction.  Mr.  Wilson 
is  secretary  of  the  Illinois  State's  Attorneys' 
Association,  a  member  and  the  secretary  of  the 
board  of  directors  of  the  Anna  Brown  Home  for 
the  Aged  and  a  trustee  of  Illinois  College.  He 
was  married  June  14,  1894,  to  Miss  Frances  W. 
Hall,  of  Jacksonville,  111. 


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JUDGE  B.  F.  BERRIAN. 

While  ex-Governor  Wood  is  the  founder  of 
Quincy,  to  the  late  George  W.  Berrian,  father 
of  Judge  B.  F.  Berrian,  belongs  the  distinction 
of  discovering  the  site  of  the  Gem  City.  In  the 
spring  of  1818  Mr.  Berrian,  with  his  uncle,  Rich- 
ard Berrian,  started  from  New  York  in  a  cov- 
ered buggy  to  visit  that  section  of  western  Illi- 
nois known  as  the  Military  Tract.  Their  trip 
was  a  long  and  eventful  one,  much  of  the  west 
still  being  in  possession  of  the  Indians  and  the 
white  settlements  being  hundreds  of  miles  apart. 
In  June,  1819,  accompanied  by  a  man  named 
Jacobs,  who  had  lived  for  some  time  within  the 
present  boundaries  of  Adams  county,  they 
visited  the  bluffs  where  Quincy  is  now  located. 
Old  poles,  remnants  of  wigwams  or  teppees, 
were  still  numerous,  but  the  visitors  were  satis- 
fied at  that  early  day  that  this  would  be  the  site 
of  an  important  city.  Sometime  after  leaving 
this  locality,  near  Atlas,  the  Berrians  met  John 
Wood  and  ever  after  these  early  pioneers  were 
warm  personal  friends.  Judge  Berrian  still  has 
in  his  possession  letters  written  by  his  father 
from  Edwardsville  in  1819. 

Judge  Berrian  was  born  in  New  York  City 
October  2,  1830.  With  his  father's  family  he 
left  New  York  on  the  last  day  of  April,  1844,  to 
come  west.  They  went  by  boat  to  Perth  Amboy, 
N.  Y.,  then  by  cars  to  Harrisburg,  via  Philadel- 


phia, where  they  took  a  passenger  boat  on  the 
canal  to  Hollidaysburg.  The  mountains  were 
crossed  by  train  on  five  inclined  planes,  the  cars 
being  hauled  up  and  lowered  by  wire  cables 
operated  by  powerful  engines.  From  Johns- 
town, on  this  side  of  the  mountains,  the  journey 
was  made  by  canal  to  Pittsburg,  thence  by 
steamboat  to  St.  Louis  and  Quincy,  where  the 
party  arrived  on  the  morning  of  May  20.  A 
long,  roundabout  and  tiresome  journey  fifty 
years  ago,  now  made  in  comfort  in  a  single  day. 
In  the  development  of  Quincy  Judge  Berrian  has 
been  a  prominent  and  important  factor.  He 
was  one  of  the  first  alderman  to  represent  the 
Fourth  Ward,  elected  in  1857  and  re-elected  in 
1859.  In  1869  he  was  elected  Mayor  and  under 
his  administration  the  city  resumed  cash  pay- 
ments. Previous  to  that  time  the  resources  of 
the  city  had  become  so  reduced  that  all  pay- 
ments had  been  made  in  vouchers  which  were 
at  a  discount  of  40  per  cent,  but  he  determined 
to  restore  the  credit  of  the  city  and  by  reason 
of  his  careful  and  successful  financial  manage- 
ment cash  payments  were  resumed.  In  1876  he 
was  elected  county  judge  and  held  that  impor- 
tant office  for  seventeen  years.  During  his  long 
term  of  service  on  the  bench  the  affairs  of  the 
court  were  administered  with  even  handed  and 
impartial  justice  and  Judge  Berrian  is  univer- 
sally regarded  as  one  of  the  most  honored  offi- 
cials of  the  city  and  county. 

ALBERT  AKERS. 

Mr.  Albert  Akers,  the  subject  of  this  sketch, 
is  a  sturdy  type  of  the  self-made  man,  and  all 
he  has  was  obtained  by  hard  work  and  self- 
denial.  He  is  a  prominent  member  of  the 
Quincy  bar,  but  to  gain  that  position  he  had  to 
overcome  obstacles  which  would  have  over- 
whelmed a  less  determined  nature.  He  was 
born  on  a  farm  in  Columbus  township,  Adams 
county,  Illinois,  September  26,  1849,  and 
remained  there  until  he  reached  his  majority. 
He  was  the  eighth  child  of  a  large  family,  and 
as  his  parents  were  very  poor  and  school  facili- 
ties in  that  neighborhood  meagre,  his  early 
opportunities  for  securing  an  education  were 
limited.  Up  to  the  age  of  twelve  he  attended 
the  district  school  about  three  months  in  the 
year,  working  on  the  farm  the  rest  of  the  time. 
When  the  civil  war  broke  out  and  President 
Lincoln  called  for  troops.  Mr.  Akers'  four  older 
brothers  responded  to  the  call  of  patriotic  duty 
and  enlisted  in  the  Union  army.  His  father  had 
died  before  that  time,  and  when  his  older  broth- 


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ers  marched  away  to  battle  for  the  country's 
salvation  young  Akers  was  compelled  to  aban- 
don school  altogether,  take  charge  of  the  farm 
and  assist  in  supporting  his  widowed  mother 
and  some  younger  children.  That  was  a  heavy 
burden  for  a  lad  of  twelve,  but  he  faced  it  man- 
fully, and  while  he  smiles  over  it  now  the  hard- 
ships which  he  endured  at  that  time  were  such 
as  not  to  be  envied  by  any  boy.  He  continued 
as  a  farm  laborer  until  he  was  twenty-two  years 
old,  when  he  entered  school  at  Camp  Point.  He 
studied  there  for  seven  months,  when  he  was 
granted  a  license  to  teach,  and  by  teaching  ir 
winter  and  attending  normal  schools  in  sum- 
mer he  acquired  a  fair  education. 

He  was  married  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  in  1876 
to  Ida  May  Silver.  Four  children  were  born  to 
them,  three  of  whom  are  living.  In  1878  he 
entered  the  office  of  Carter  &  Govert,  where  he 
studied  law  for  a  year,  and  then  went  to  Shelby- 
ville,  Ind.,  where  he  completed  his  law  studies 
and  was  admitted  to  the  bar,  entering  upon  the 
practice  of  his  chosen  profession  in  1880.  He 
practiced  law  in  Shelbyville  for  eight  years,  and 
during  the  latter  part  of  his  residence  there  was 
editor  and  part  owner  of  tb,e  Shelbyville  Times. 
He  also  served  in  the  Shelbyville  council  as  an 
alderman. 

He  returned  to  Quincy  in  1888,  and  has  built 
up  a  lucrative  practice  here,  being  now  a  mem- 
ber of  the  firm  of  Akers  &  Swope.  He  was 
elected  state's  attorney  in  1892,  in  which  posi- 


tion he  served  until  1896.  Among  the  impor- 
tant cases  which  he  prosecuted  were  those  of  the 
Kingston  white  cappers  and  George  Coward, 
who  was  sent  to  the  penitentiary  for  life  for 
murder.  He  was  elected  an  alderman  from  the 
Sixth  ward  in  1897,  and  was  one  of  the  influen- 
tial members  of  the  city  council. 

JOHN  T.  INGHRAM. 

Of  the  younger  members  of  the  Quincy  bar 
none  hold  a  more  prominent  position  than  Mr. 
John  T.  Inghram.  He  has  applied  himself 
strictly  to  his  profession  and  has  established  a 
practice  which  is  highly  creditable  to  his  energy 
and  ability.  A  close  student  of  the  law  and  of 
a  judicial  turn  of  mind,  his  uniform  success 
demonstrates  the  fact  that  he  is  a  wise  coun- 
selor as  well  as  an  attorney  of  more  than  ordi- 
nary ability.  Mr.  Inghram  was  born  in  this 
city  July  11,  1870.  After  graduating  from  the 
Quincy  High  School  he  took  the  law  course  at 
the  Michigan  University  at  Ann  Arbor.  In  1891 
he  commenced  the  practice  of  his  profession 
here  under  the  present  firm  name  of  Inghram  & 
Crewdson.  He  was  married  in  1898  to  Miss 
Lillian  C.  Brown,  one  of  Quincy's  most  brilliant 
musical  artists.  Mr.  Inghram  is  prominent  in 
Masonic  circles,  being  eminent  commander  of 
Beauseaut  Commandery,  Knights  Templar,  and 
past  high  priest  of  Quincy  Chapter,  Royal  Arch 
Masons. 


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HON.  HOPE  S.  DAVIS. 

The  Hon.  Hope  S.  Davis  is  the  oldest  member 
of  the  Quincy  bar  in  term  of  service,  having 
commenced  active  practice  here  nearly  fifty 
years  ago.  His  ancestors  were  prominent  in  the 
affairs  of  Massachusetts  and  New  York  and,  par- 
ticipated in  the  revolutionary  war  and  the  war 
of  1812.  Mr.  Davis  was  born  on  a  farm  near 
Rochester,  N.  Y.,  and  attended  the  Brockport 
and  Lima  seminaries,  receiving  a  broad  and 
comprehensive  education.  When  sixteen  years 
of  age  he  commenced  teaching  during  the  win- 
ter in  a  district  school  and  continued  this  occu- 
pation for  five  winters.  Deciding  to  enter  the 
legal  profession,  on  March  25,  1850,  he  went  into 
the  law  office  of  Bowne  &  Benedict,  prominent 
attorneys  of  Rochester,  also  attending  the  Bol- 
ston  Law  School  two  full  terms  and  two  years 
later  was  admitted  to  practice  in  New  York, 
passing  a  highly  creditable  examination  before 
Judges  Strong,  Harris  and  Gardner.  November 
11,  1852,  he  opened  an  office  in  this  city.  In 
those  days  Abraham  Lincoln,  Stephen  A.  Doug- 
las and  other  eminent  attorneys  of  the  earlier 
days  were  practicing  before  the  Quincy  courts. 
In  1856  Mr.  Davis  was  appointed  superintendent 
of  the  Quincy  schools,  which  important  office 
he  held  for  six  years.  During  his  term  of  ser- 
vice he  secured  the  passage  of  a  special  act  of 
the  legislature  creating  the  board  of  education 
and  establishing  the  first  high  school  under  a 
graded  system.  In  1858  he  formed  a  law  part- 
nership with  Judge  Philo  A.  Goodwin,  which 
continued  until  Judge  Goodwin's  death,  seven- 
teen years  later.  In  1862  Mr.  Davis  was  elected 
county  superintendent  of  schools  and  in  1863 


was  elected  a  member  of  the  city  council.  In 
1876  he  was  chosen  a  member  of  the  state  legis- 
lature and  was  the  author  of  the  voluntary 
assignment  law  and  other  important  legislation. 
Few  men  in  the  community  have  performed 
greater  service  for  the  general  public  than  has 
Mr.  Davis.  He  is  still  engaged  in  law  practice, 
an  honored  member  of  the  Quincy  bar.  Mr. 
Davis  was  married  January  16,  1855,  to  Miss 
Persis  C.  Root,  daughter  of  Edwin  C.  Root,  of 
Monroe  county,  New  York.  His  wife  died  July 
15,  1886,  leaving  five  daughters  and  three  sons, 
Lottie  B.,  Celia  E.,  Persis  C.,  Mary  B.,  Irena  G., 
Hope  S.,  Jr.,  Philo  G.  and  Waite  H.  On  May  21, 
1895,  Mr.  Davis  was  married  to  Miss  Melissa  J. 
Ward,  of  this  city. 

CHARLES  M.  HOLT. 

Mr.  Charles  M.  Holt,  the  well-known  collec- 
tion attorney,  was  born  at  Williamstown,  Mo., 
in  1860.  His  father,  the  venerable  Rev.  J.  M. 
Holt,  preached  in  northeast  Missouri  for  forty- 
five  years  and  is  one  of  the  most  widely  known 
Baptist  clergymen  in  the  state.  Of  late  years  he 
has  given  up  active  work  and  is  now  a  resident 
of  this  city.  The  son,  desiring  a  professional 
life,  attended  La  Grange  College  and  afterwards 
graduated  from  the  law  departmenc  of  the  Mis- 
souri State  University  and  was  admitted  to 
practice,  opening  an  office  at  Edina.  In  1889  he 
came  to  Quincy  and  established  his  present  col- 
lection agency,  which  has  proven  eminently  suc- 
cessful. 


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JOSEPH  L.   SHERIDAN. 


CIRCUIT   CLKRK. 


With  some  men  success  has  come  from  adver- 
sity, and  this  is  certainly  the  experience  of  Mr. 
Joseph  L.  Sheridan,  clerk  of  the  circuit  court. 
Though  still  a  young  man  his  experience  would 
fill  a  book.  He  was  born  on  a  farm  in  Pembroke 
township,  Kankakee  county,  Illinois,  September 
27,  18G2,  in  one  of  the  original  log  cabins,  his 
father,  Daniel  Sheridan,  being  one  of  the  early 
settlers  of  the  state.  The  youngest  of  ten  chil- 


at  the  molders'  trade  in  Detroit,  he  was  thrown 
out  of  work,  but  obtained  a  position  in  the  fire 
department  at  Grand  Haven,  Mich.,  as  driver  of 
a  hose  cart,  which  he  hold  for  two  years.  De- 
ciding to  complete  his  trade  as  a  stove  molder, 
he  obtained  a  place  in  the  Chicago  Stove  Works, 
where  he  served  the  balance  of  his  time,  joined 
the  union  and  before  he  was  twenty-one  years  of 
age  was  making  five  dollars  per  day.  In  the 


dren,  his  mother  moved  to  Detroit  when  he  was 
a  baby.  There  he  attended  the  public  schools 
until  he  was  eleven  years  of  age,  having  passed 
the  examinations  for  the  senior  class.  Being 
obliged  to  assist  in  the  support  of  the  family, 
he  worked  in  a  grocery  store  for  two  years, 
receiving  six  dollars  per  month.  He  was  will- 
ing to  do  whatever  was  presented  and  when 
thirteen,  better  wages  being  offered,  accepted  a 
position  as  assistant  cook  on  a  lake  vessel.  At 
the  end  of  the  navigation  season  he  returned  to 
Detroit  and  during  the  winter  was  cook  for  a 
camp  of  twenty  men  in  the  pineries  back  of  Bay 
City.  The  next  spring  found  him  back  on  the 
old  homestead,  in  Kankakee  township,  where  he 
put  in  a  crop  and  the  following  fall  he  picked 
cotton  in  Arkansas.  After  working  two  years 


fall  of  1883  he  came  to  Quincy,  a  change  which 
ended  his  adversity  and  which  has  proven  of  the 
highest  advantage.  Here  he  found  steady  em- 
ployment and  soon  made  his  influence  felt.  A 
natural  leader,  quiet,  courteous  and  sincere,  he 
has  held  every  office  in  the  local  iron  molders' 
union  but  that  of  financial  secretary.  In  the 
spring  of  1896  he  was  elected  alderman  on  the 
republican  ticket  from  the  Fourth  Ward.  At 
the  third  meeting  of  the  city  council  following 
his  inauguration  he  was  elected  city  clerk  pro 
tern,  to  succeed  George  Smith.  The  council  was 
democratic,  but  there  were  no  votes  against  him. 
In  the  fall  of  1896  he  was  elected  circuit  clerk  by 
a  majority  of  over  700.  He  has  filled  every 
position  which  he  has  held  with  credit  to  him- 
self and  in  his  present  responsible  office  is  mak- 
ing an  enviable  record. 


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REPRESENTATIVE  MEN  AND  HOMES. 


with  its  duties,  he  possesses  the  highest  degree 
of  courage  and  determination.  Under  his  ad- 
ministration the  sheriff's  office  is  in  most  excel- 
lent hands. 


JOHN  W.  ROTH. 

SHERIFF. 

John  W.  Roth,  sheriff  of  Adams  county,  was 
born  in  Camp  Point,  September  23,  1858.  He  is 
a  son  of  the  late  John  A.  Roth,  one  of  the  early 
settlers  of  Quincy,  his  father  locating  here  in 
the  early  '30's.  Mr.  Roth,  Sr.,  was  a  cabinet 
maker  and  for  some  time  was  interested  in  the 
furniture  business,  the  firm  being  Shell  &  Roth. 
He  was  one  of  the  first  to  cross  the  plains  dur- 
ing the  first  gold  excitement  in  1849.  After 
remaining  in  California  three  years  he  returned 
to  Quincy,  but  a  little  later  made  a  second  trip 
to  the  far  west.  On  his  return  here  the  North- 
ern Cross  Railroad  was  projected  and  in  1856  he 
went  to  Camp  Point,  where  he  bought  property 
acd  established  himself  in  business.  His  wife 
was  a  highly  cultured  lady,  being  thoroughly 
familiar  with  the  French,  German  and  English 
languages.  After  acquiring  a  good  common 
school  education,  Mr.  John  W.  Roth  worked  for 
a  time  in  his  father's  store,  but  concluded  to  try 
railroading  and  for  a  time  was  employed  in  the 
Wabash  and  Union  Pacific  train  service.  In 
1884  he  bought  out  a  general  store  at  Kingston, 
which  he  conducted  successfully  for  six  years. 
He  was  appointed  deputy  sheriff  while  engaged 
in  business  there  and  held  that  position  contin- 
uously until  he  was  elected  sheriff  in  1898.  His 
training  gives  him  special  qualifications  for  this 
office,  and  added  to  his  thorough  familiarity 


JAMES  McKINNAY. 

COUNTY   TREASURER 

The  present  treasurer  of  Adams  county  was 
born  in  Lima  township,  June  1,  1867.  He  at- 
tended the  Camp  Point  High  School,  Chaddock 
College  and  the  Gem  City  Business  College. 
His  schooling  was  supplemented  by  teaching, 
three  terms  in  this  county,  two  in  Hancock 
county  and  writing  school  two  terms.  In  this 
v-ay  he  earned  money  to  complete  his  own 
cxcellert  and  comprehensive  education.  He 
was  stenographer  for  Lummis,  Earhart  &  Co. 
for  a  time  and  then  represented  the  Evening 
Herald  on  the  road  for  two  years,  after  which 
he  was  bookkeeper  for  D.  N.  Wisherd.  In  1895 
he  was  appointed  deputy  county  treasurer,  to  be 
elected  county  treasurer  at  the  last  election. 
That  so  young  a  man  should  become  so  promi- 
nent is  unusual,  but  Mr.  McKinnay  combines 
the  elements  of  popularity.  He  is  genial  and 
affable,  has  a  wide  acquaintance  throughout  the 
county  and  was  enabled  to  secure  the  nomina- 
tion for  one  of  the  most  lucrative  and  responsi- 
ble offices  in  the  county.  He  has  reason  to  feel 
proud  of  his  splendid  success. 


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JACKSON  R.  PEARCE, 

COUNTY   CLERK. 

Mr.  Jackson  R.  Pearce,  the  present  county 
clerk  of  Adams  county,  was  born  in  Houston 
township,  October  28,  1862.  His  father, 
Augustus  F.  Pearce,  one  of  the  most  substantial 
farmers  of  the  county,  came  here  from  Ken- 
tucky in  1851  and  his  mother,  nee  Mary  E. 
Woods,  is  a  native  of  Illinois.  The  son  worked 
on  the  home  farm  until  he  was  eighteen,  receiv- 
ing an  excellent  common  school  education.  He 
then  taught  school  two  years  and  in  1882 
engaged  in  the  general  merchandise,  grain  and 
implement  business  at  Chatten.  On  October  23, 
1890,  he  accepted  a  position  in  the  county  clerk's 
office,  being  appointed  deputy  the  following 
December.  This  position  he  held  until  he  was 
elected  county  clerk  last  fall.  Mr.  Pearce  re- 
ceived his  training  under  Mr.  Willis  Haselwood 
and  is  a  worthy  successor  of  that  substantial 
and  popular  official.  He  is  thoroughly  familiar 
with  every  detail  of  this  important  and  respon- 
sible office  and  his  uniform  courtesy  and  sterl- 
ing qualities,  have  gained  for  him  the  confidence 
of  the  people  of  the  county  generally.  Mr. 
Pearce  was  married  September  15,  1884,  to  Miss 
Elizabeth  McGinnis  and  they  have  two  daugh- 
ters and  one  son. 


PROF.  ALBERT  R.  SMITH, 

COUNTY  SUPERINTENDENT  OF  SCHOOLS. 

Like  very  many  of  the  best  and  most  success- 
ful teachers,  Prof.  Albert  R.  Smith,  county 
superintendent  of  schools,  was  raised  on  a  farm. 
He  was  born  in  Ohio,  June  22,  1855,  in  his  earlier 
years  attending  the  district  school  in  winter 
and  filling  a  man's  place  about  the  farm.  The 
outdoor  life  gave  him  his  fine  physique  and 
robust  health,  his  independent  ideas  of  reason- 
ing and  his  close  observation.  As  a  boy  he  was 
a  student  and  his  mind  was  seldom  idle.  When 
the  opportunity  was  presented  he  took  a  course 
at  a  normal  and  at  Duff's  College.  By  reason 
of  active  and  successful  school  work  he  received 
a  five-years  professional  certificate  for  teaching. 
Prof.  Smith  came  to  Adams  county  in  1891  and 
took  charge  of  the  La  Prairie  school.  Under 
his  teaching  this  school  stood  higher  in  grade 
for  three  years  than  any  other  school  in  the 
county.  He  was  teaching  at  Golden  in  1896 
when  elected  to  his  present  responsible  position. 
Superintendent  Smith  has  thoroughly  modern 
ideas  regarding  educational  work  and  has  the 
faculty  of  imparting  his  enthusiasm  to  his 
teachers.  He  is  a  man  of  few  words,  quiet  and 
reserved  and  is  doing  excellent  service  for  the 
schools  of  Adams  county. 


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CAPTAIN  WILLIAM  K.  HASELWOOD. 

CORONER. 

Captain  William  K.  Haselwood,  coroner  of 
Adams  county,  was  born  at  Williamstown,  Ky., 
February  10,  1840.  He  comes  of  old  English 
stock,  his  ancestors  settling  at  Petersburg,  Va., 
at  an  early  date.  There  his  grandfather  was 
born,  but  went  to  Kentucky  with  his  parents  in 
boyhood.  The  captain  worked  at  farming  and 
stock  raising  as  a  boy  and  in  1857  came  to 
Quincy  and  secured  employment  as  a  farm 
laborer.  When  the  war  broke  out  he  enlisted  in 
the  Fiftieth  Illinois  Infantry,  the  famous 
"Blind  Half  Hundred,"  and  was  elected  second 
lieutenant  of  Company  D.  He  was  afterwards 
promoted  to  first  lieutenant  and  captain.  His 
command  was  in  many  of  the  notable  battles  of 
the  war — Fort  Henry,  Donaldson,  Shiloh, 
Corinth  and  with  Sherman  to  the  sea.  At  the 
close  of  the  war  he  returned  to  Quincy  and  en- 
gaged in  farming  in  Fall  Creek  and  Payson 
townships  until  1873,  when  he  went  on  the  road 
as  general  collecting  agent  for  the  Howe  Sew- 
ing Machine  Company.  Three  years  later  he 
returned  to  farming  in  northeast  Missouri  and 
in  Kansas  and  was  engaged  in  railroading  in 
Mexico  for  a  short  time.  In  1882  he  was  in  the 
contracting  business  in  Dakota  and  was  there 
elected  justice  of  the  peace.  Once  more  return- 
ing to  Quincy  he  was  on  the  police  force  for 
three  years  and  a  half  and  health  officer  for  four 


years  and  a  half.  In  189G  he  was  elected  cor- 
oner on  the  republilan  ticket  by  a  handsome 
majority.  Captain  Haselwood  was  married 
August  19,  1860,  to  Miss  Martha  A.  Seehorn, 
daughter  of  the  Hon.  Eli  Seehorn,  and  they  have 
one  daughter  and  one  son,  Mrs.  Anna  M.  Law- 
rence, of  this  city,  and  Thomas  W.  Haselwood, 
a  prosperous  farmer  of  Melrose. 

ROLLA  E.  McNEALL. 

RECORDER. 

Mr.  Holla  E.  McNeall,  county  recorder,  was 
born  in  Columbus,  Adams  county,  September  9, 
1861.  He  is  a  son  of  the  late  Dr.  Nathan  Mc- 
Neall, one  of  the  early  residents  of  the  county. 
After  receiving  a  thorough  common  school  edu- 
cation he  attended  Chaddock  College  and  then 
taught  school  for  seven  years.  In  1889  he  was 
appointed  postmaster  at  Columbus  by  President 
Harrison  and  then  engaged  in  the  mercantile 
business.  For  four  years  he  was  a  member  of 
the  board  of  supervisors  from  Columbus  town- 
ship, resigning  from  the  board  to  accept  the 
office  of  county  recorder,  to  which  he  was 
elected  in  1896  on  the  republican  ticket  by  a 
handsome  majority.  He  had  become  one  of  the 
prominent  merchants  of  the  eastern  part  of  the 
county,  closing  out  his  business  to  reside  in  this 
city  when  he  was  elected  to  his  present  impor- 
tant office.  That  Mr.  McNeall  is  universally 
popular  is  evidenced  by  his  uniform  success  in 
politics.  Nominations  have  come  to  him  and  in 
every  instance  election  has  followeL 


OFFICERS  OF  THE  CITY  OF  QUINCY. 


JOHN  A.  STEINBACH. 


MAYOR    OK   QUINCY. 


Mr.  John  A.  Steinbach,  the  present  mayor  of 
Quincy,  was  born  in  Bethel,  Mo.,  January  28, 
1847.  He  comes  of  German  ancestry,  his  grand- 
father, Adam  Steinbach,  having  been  a  soldier 
under  Napoleon;  he  was  one  of  three  out  of  his 
company  of  300  who  returned  from  the  terrible 
expedition  to  Moscow.  His  father,  John  A., 
was  one  of  the  early  residents  of  Quincy  and 
died  here  in  1854.  Mayor  Steinbach  came  to 
this  city  with  his  parents  in  1848.  He  was  given 
a  fair  common  school  education  and  at  thirteen 
years  of  age  commenced  learning  the  bricklay- 
ers' trade.  When  the  war  broke  out  he  was  one 
of  the  first  to  offer  his  services,  but  on  account 
of  his  age,  fourteen  years,  he  was  rejected  by 
the  recruiting  officers.  In  1865,  however,  he 
enlisted  in  Company  D,  148th  Illinois  Volunteer 
Infantry  and  was  soon  elected  first  lieutenant  of 
the  company.  On  his  return  from  the  war  he 
resumed  work  at  his  trade  and  in  1871  engaged 
in  the  brick  contracting  business  with  his  step- 
father. From  boyhood  he  had  always  taken  an 
active  interest  in  the  fire  department,  holding 
various  positions,  and  in  1875  he  was  appointed 
chief  engineer,  holding  this  important  office 
until  1885,  when  he  declined  reappointment. 
Under  his  management  the  department  was 
brought  up  to  the  highest  state  of  efficiency. 
New  steam  engines  were  purchased,  the  swing- 
ing harness  introduced  and  improved  devices, 
for  saving  time  and  for  fighting  fire  adopted. 
Quincy  has  never  had  a  better  or  more  efficient 
fire  chief.  In  1885  he  resumed  the  brick  con- 
tracting business  with  his  brother,  Phillip,  and 
the  firm  of  Steinbach  Brothers,  still  in  active 
business,  stands  at  the  head  of  their  line  of  con- 
tract work  in  this  entire  section.  They  have 
done  the  brick  work  on  nearly  every  important 
public  building,  business  block  and  fine  resi- 
dence erected  here  in  recent  years  and  have  also 
built  many  notable  buildings  in  neighboring 
cities  in  this  state,  Iowa  and  Missouri.  In  1895 
Mr.  Steinbach  was  elected  mayor  and  has 
twice  been  re-elected  to  that  important  office. 
Since  he  has  been  chief  executive  the  bonded 
indebtedness  of  the  city  has  been  reduced  nearly 
$250,000  and  the  credit  of  the  city  has  been 
advanced  until  refunding  bonds  have  been 


floated  at  4  per  cent  interest.  Over  twelve  miles 
of  brick  and  novaculite  paving  have  been  put 
down  and  the  sewerage  system  has  been  largely 
extended.  Many  questions  of  far-reaching  im- 
portance have  been  presented  and  settled, 
including  the  reorganization  of  the  city  govern- 
ment under  the  general  law,  the  questions 
affecting  the  rebuilding  of  the  C.,  B.  &  Q.  Rail- 
way terminals  here,  the  introduction  of  steam 


heating  and  the  extension  of  the  water  works 
and  street  railway  systems.  A  new  fire  depart- 
ment district  has  been  organized  in  the  north- 
ern part  of  the  city  and  a  spacious  and  thor- 
oughly modern  engine  house  built.  A  new 
engine  house  has  also  been  recently  completed 
in  the  southern  part  of  the  city.  Personally, 
Mayor  Steinbach  is  genial  and  affable,  frank 
and  open-handed.  He  is  a  man  of  positive 
opinions  and  is  frank  in  expressing  them.  His 
opponents  are  never  in  doubt  as  to  where  he 
stands. 


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HORACE  J.  FARRAR. 

CITY    CLKRK. 

Mr.  Horace  J.  Farrar,  the  present  city  clerk, 
was  born  at  Portage,  Wis.,  February  23,  1862, 
and  is  a  son  of  the  late  Isaac  N.  Farrar.  Com- 
ing to  Quincy  with  his  parents  in  1870,  at  the 
age  of  ten,  he  commenced  learning  the  tinners' 
trade  with  G.  J.  Cottrell  and  then  worked  at  his 
trade  for  three  years  at  Payson.  For  three 
years  he  was  engaged  in  the  hardware  business 
at  Williamstown,  Mo.,  but  sold  his  store  and 
returned  to  this  city.  In  1884  he  was  appointed 
a  letter  carrier,  holding  this  position  until  1889, 
when  he  traveled  for  a  time  for  Reidinger  & 
Oertel.  In  1890  he  was  appointed  special  tax 
collector,  but  resigned  that  office  to  accept  the 
position  of  bookkeeper  and  cashier  at  the 
Quincy  Paper  Mills.  In  May,  1896,  he  was  ap- 
pointed city  clerk  to  fill  an  unexpired  term,  was 
elected  to  the  same  office  in  1897  and  re-elected 
for  two  years  this  spring.  A  rapid  and  correct 
accountant,  he  is  thoroughly  qualified  for  the 
duties  of  his  office.  Mr.  Farrar  has  taken  an 
active  and  prominent  part  in  democratic  poli- 
tics, having  held  the  position  of  secretary  of 
both  the  city  and  county  central  committees. 
He  was  married  April  5,  1883,  to  Miss  Alice 
Shallenberger,  of  Williamstown,  Mo.,  and  they 
have  two  daughters. 


FRANK  SONNET. 

CITY   TREASURF.K. 

Mr.  Frank  Sonnet,  who  was  elected  to  the 
responsible  office  of  city  treasurer  and  town  col- 
lector last  spring,  has  been  a  resident  of  Quincy 
for  thirty  years.  Born  in  the  beautiful  Rhine 
Valley,  Germany,  January  24,  1848,  he  came  to 
America  and  located  in  Quincy  May  9,  1869, 
selecting  for  his  home  in  his  adopted  country 
this  attractive  city  in  the  Central  Mississippi 
Valley.  For  a  time  the  young  man  worked  for 
Brown  Brothers  as  shipping  clerk  and  then 
learned  the  bakers'  trade.  In  1873  he  formed  a 
partnership  with  Joseph  Thuer  in  the  bakery 
business,  the  firm  being  continued  for  four 
years,  when  Mr.  Sonnet  engaged  in  the  same  line 
of  business  on  Maine  street.  In  1886  he  sold  out 
and  the  restaurant  firm  of  Sonnet  &  Cunane  was 
formed,  Mr.  Sonnet  disposing  of  his  interest 
seven  years  later.  In  1895  he  was  appointed 
special  tax  collector  and  filled  the  position  so 
well  that  he  was  continued  in  that  office  for 
four  years,  being  elected  city  treasurer  and  ex- 
officio  town  collector  at  the  last  election.  Mr. 
Sonnet  is  a  trustee  of  the  Fireman's  Benevolent 
Association  and  of  St.  Aloysius  Orphan  Society; 
vice  president  of  St.  Nicholas  branch,  W.  C.  U., 
and  a  director  of  Graceland  Cemetery  Associa- 
tion. He  was  married  June  4,  1875,  to  Miss 
Christina  Mast,  of  this  city. 


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REPRESENTATIVE  MEN  AND  HOMES. 


ALFRED  A.  SEEHORN. 

SUPERINTENDENT  OF    SCHOOLS. 

Mr.  Alfred  A.  Seehorn,  superintendent  of  the 
public  schools  of  Quincy,  was  born  on  a  farm  in 
Fall  Creek  township,  October  1,  1860.  His 
father,  Mr.  Alfred  Seehorn,  came  to  this  county 
from  Tennessee  in  1832.  One  of  the  early  pion- 
eers, he  was  actively  identified  with  the  devel- 
opment of  the  county  and  has  lived  to  enjoy  the 
advantages  of  an  honest,  industrious  life.  As 
member  of  the  board  of  supervisors  and  chair- 
man of  that  body  and  in  other  positions  of  re- 
sponsibility, he  has  made  himself  widely  known 
and  universally  honored  and  respected.  Super- 
intendent Ssehorn  was  brought  up  on  the  farm, 
attending  the  district  school.  Developing  an 
aptitude  for  a  broader  education,  he  attended 
the  Payson  High  School  and  Chaddock  College. 
He  then  gave  his  attention  to  teaching,  serving 
one  year  in  Hancock  county,  nine  years  in  Fall 
Creek  and  two  years  at  Plainville.  In  1894  he 
was  elected  county  superintendent  of  schools. 
His  experience  in  the  active  work  of  teaching 
was  of  the  highest  advantage  to  him  in  this 
position  and  enabled  him  to  inaugurate  changes 
and  reforms  of  first  importance.  He  resigned 
his  office  in  the  fall  of  1897  to  accept  the  posi- 
tion of  superintendent  of  the  public  schools  of 
Quincy,  which  he  still  holds. 


HENRY  STEINKAMP. 

ASSKSSOR. 

Mr.  Henry  Steinkamp  was  born  at  Colsfeld, 
Westphalia,  in  1837,  and  came  to  this  country 
when  he  was  twenty-one  years  of  age,  locating 
in  Quincy.  After  working  at  his  trade  of  har- 
ness maker  for  a  time  he  engaged  in  the  har- 
ness making  business  on  State  street  in  1862  and 
has  continued  his  store  and  factory  for  nearly 
forty  years,  his  being  one  of  the  oldest  business 
houses  in  the  city.  In  1870  he  was  appointee 
assistant  chief  engineer  of  the  fire  department, 
serving  for  two  years;  in  1872  he  was  elected 
city  marshal;  in  1875,  city  collector,  and  in  1878 
town  collector.  In  1880  Mr.  Steinkamp  was 
elected  to  the  important  and  responsible  posi- 
tion of  assessor,  which  position  he  still  holds, 
his  term  of  office  covering  nearly  twenty  years. 
His  thorough  knowledge  of  property  values,  his 
unfailing  judgment  and  his  unquestioned  hon- 
esty have  made  him  a  most  competent  official 
and  so  highly  is  his  work  regarded  by  his  fel- 
low citizens  that  he  has  many  times  been  re- 
elected  without  opposition.  Mr.  Steinkamp  is 
public-spirited  and  progressive  and  has  been 
identified  with  a  number  of  important  public 
enterprises.  He  has  a  very  wide  acquaintance 
throughout  this  section  of  the  state,  as  well  as 
in  Quincy,  and  is  universally  popular  with  the 
people. 


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REPRESENTATIVE  MEN  AND  HOMES. 


CAPTAIN  JOHN  AHERN. 

CHIEF   OF   POLICE. 

John  Ahern,  the  efficient  chief  of  police  ofl 
Quincy,  was  born  in  this  city,  and  has  won  dis- 
tinction in  two  different  branches  of  life.  He 
first  worked  for  Battell  &  Collins,  in  what  is 
now  the  Collins  Plow  Works,  and  was  with 
them  for  seven  years.  He  was  always  an  ath- 
lete, and  when  a  young  man  started  out  with 
the  W.  W.  Cole  circus  as  an  acrobat.  That  same 
season  the  acrobatic  team  which  became  famous 
all  over  the  country  as  the  Ahern  brothers,  was 
organized.  It  was  composed  of  John  Ahern,  Os 
Finkel  and  Billy  Van  Steenberg,  and  they  were 
the  wcnder  of  all  who  witnessed  their  daring 
and  difficult  feats.  Captain  Ahern  was  the  star 
of  the  trio,  and  originated  much  of  the  difficult 
work  on  the  bars.  They  traveled  three  seasons 
with  George  Mankin's  circus,  doing  ground  and 
lofty  tumbling  and  work  on  the  horizontal  bars. 
While  doing  a  double  somersault  from  the  bars 
in  a  performance  at  Stockbridge,  Mich.,  Finkel 
was  killed,  and  that  tragedy  broke  up  the  team. 
He  then  traveled  with  Billy  Miltimore  in  John 
B.  Doris'  circus,  doing  a  wonderful  act  in  the 
flying  trapeze  from  a  pedestal,  and  also  feats  on 
the  horizontal  bars  with  Harry  Vokes,  Eddy 
Rice  and  Billy  O'Brien.  Captain  Ahern  tired  of 
circus  life  after  several  years  on  the  road,  and 
returning  to  Quincy  accepted  a  position  in  the 
wholesale  grocery  house  of  Tripp  &  Tapp.  He 
was  then  employed  by  the  gas  company  for  one 
year,  and  in  1888  entered  upon  his  successful 
service  in  the  police  department  as  a  night 


patrolman.  He  served  in  that  position  but  a 
short  time,  when  he  was  made  a  day  patrolman. 
Then  he  became  a  detective,  and  October  24, 
1890,  was  appointed  chief  of  the  department,  a 
responsible  position  which  he  has  filled  with  rare 
ability.  He  was  married  Feb.  1,  1881,  to  Miss 
Eva  C.  Stephens,  of  this  city,  and  they  have  four 
children,  three  boys  and  one  girl. 

WILLIAM  A.  McCONNELL. 

SUPERINTCNDENT  HOUSE  OF  CORRECTION. 

The  work  of  Mr.  William  A.  McConnell  as 
superintendent  of  the  Quincy  House  of  Correc- 
tion, certainly  entitles  him  to  prominent  rank 
among  the  managers  of  psnal  and  reformatory 
institutions.  He  has  had  to  deal  with  thousands 
of  criminals  and  law-breakers,  many  of  them 
desperate  men,  but  he  has  maintained  perfect 
discipline  at  all  times  and  has  enforced  the  reg- 
ulations of  the  institution  to  the  letter.  His 
methods  are  along  the  most  advanced  lines  of 
reformatory  work  and  he  is  fully  competent  to 
manage  any  of  the  larger  prisons  or  reforma- 
tory institutions.  While  the  majority  of  his 
prisoners  are  at  work  during  the  day  and  are 
at  all  times  given  the  greatest  degree  of  liberty 
consistent  with  safety,  it  is  proverbial  of  him 
that  none  of  them  ever  escape.  Mr.  McConnell 
was  born  in  New  Jersey  and  came  to  Quincy 
with  his  parents  in  1861.  He  was  engaged  in 
contracting  for  some  time  and  on  April  5,  1883, 
was  appointed  to  his  present  position  by  Mayor 
Deaderick,  holding  the  office  continuously  ever 
since. 


REPRESENTATIVE  MEN  AND  HOMES. 


GEORGE  J.  SCHLAG. 

CHIEF   KNGINEER   OF   THE    FIRE    DEPARTMENT. 

Mr.  George  J.  Schlag,  chief  engineer  of  the  fire 
department,  was  born  in  this  city  March  8,  1858. 
He  is  a  son  of  the  late  Mr.  John  Schlag,  who 
came  here  in  1835,  one  of  the  pioneer  residents 
of  Quincy.  His  father  died  when  he  was  a  boy 
and  after  receiving  a  fair  common  school  edu- 
cation, George  was  obliged  to  make  his  own 
way  in  the  world.  When  quite  young  he  went 
to  work  in  the  tobacco  factory  of  Goodman  & 
Turner,  on  Fifth  and  Jersey  streets,  and  contin- 
ued with  them  after  the  organization  of  the 
Gem  City  Tobacco  Works.  He  was  then  for  four 
years  in  the  grocery  store  of  Ording  &  Glass,  on 
Twelfth  and  Maine  streets.  His  first  work  in 
the  fire  department  was  as  minuteman  at  the 
No.  1  engine  house,  in  December,  1885.  The  fol- 
lowing spring  he  was  appointed  roundsman. 
After  five  years'  work  in  the  department  he  was 
appointed  chief  engineer,  May  6,  1891,  a  posi- 
tion which  he  has  held  ever  since,  with  the 
exception  of  one  year,  when  he  was  displaced 
for  political  reasons.  Chief  Schlag  is  a  typical 
fireman.  His  splendid  physique  and  great 
strength  enable  him  to  endure  any  amount  of 
hard  work  and  exposure.  A  remarkable  degree 
of  personal  courage  is  Intelligently  directed, 
inspiring  his  men  to  greatest  efforts.  Since  he 
has  been  chief  two  large  new  engine  houses 
have  been  built,  all  of  the  old  engine  houses 
have  been  rebuilt  and  thoroughly  modernized 
and  the  entire  department  has  been  maintained 
to  the  highest  degree  of  efficiency 


ALDERMAN  THOMAS  J.  MANNING. 

Alderman  Thomas  J.  Manning,  member  of  the 
board  of  local  improvements  and  superintendent 
of  sewers,  is  a  native  of  Maine,  borne  at  Lewis- 
town,  March  1,  1856.  He  had  the  advantages  of 
a  fair  common  school  education,  but  was  early 
thrown  on  his  own  resources  and  found  work  in 
the  cotton  mills.  While  still  a  young  man  he 
learned  the  trade  of  silver  plating  and  in  1872 
decided  to  come  west,  working  at  his  trade  three 
years  in  Milwaukee  and  then  going  to  St.  Paul. 
In  1877  he  located  in  Quincy  and  soon  after 
established  his  present  silver  plating  works.  He 
is  one  of  the  first  members  of  the  board  of  local 
improvements  and  his  work  in  this  important 
organization  has  been  highly  creditable.  Last 
spring  he  was  elected  alderman  of  the  Second 
ward  by  a  substantial  majority.  Mr.  Manning 
served  as  trustee  of  the  Supreme  Council  of  the 
Western  Catholic  Union  two  terms  and  now 
holds  the  responsible  office  of  supreme  presi- 
dent, to  which  he  was  first  elected  at  Spring- 
field in  October,  1895.  He  has  held  this  office 
for  four  terms  and  so  well  has  he  discharged  the 
duties  of  chief  executive  that  he  was  re-elected 
at  the  convention  at  Joliet  last  year  by  accla- 
mation. During  his  presidency  the  membership 
of  the  union  has  been  increased  largely  and  the 
affairs  of  the  organization  are  in  a  most  pros- 
perous condition. 


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RESIDENCE  AND  GROUNDS  OF  CHARLES  HENRY  BULL. 


INDEX-BIOGRAPHICAL. 


Page. 

Adams,    James   E 32 

Ahern,   John    132 

Akers,    Albert  A.... 122 

Anderson,  Wick  81 

Arthur,  William  H 57 


Baldwin,   Thomas  S. 

Bartlett,   L.   B 

Bartlett,   S.   P 

Bastert,   J.    Henry... 

Batschy,   John    

Benton,  Joel   

Berrian,    B.    P 

Bert,   John   L 


.................  90 

.................  54 

................    68 

.................  83 

.................  82 

.................  92 

.................  122 

.................  60 

Binkert,   Antone    ...........................  41 

Blank,  Charles  A  ...........................  66 

Blasland,  Captain  Harry  D  ...............  110 

Boswell,    Lewis    B  ..........................  5"i 

Botsford-,   Edmund   M  ......................  36 

Bradford,  Edwin  Freeman  ................  29 

Breitwieser,    Charles   W  ...................  91 

Broady,  Judge  John  C  .....................  114 

Bull,  Charles  H  .............................  14 

Bull,    Lorenzo    ..............................    7 

Carley,   Charles   E  ..........................  21 

Carter,  Judge  Joseph  N  ...................  113 

Cassidy,   J.  W  ...............................  48 

Castle,  Adjutant  Alfred  L  ................  112 

Castle,   Chauncey  H  ........................  15 

Center,  Dr.   Charles  D  .....................  107 

Chatten,  Enoch  R  ..........................  69 

Chatten,    Harvey    ..........................  80 

Christie,  Dr.  Robert  J.,  Jr  .................  98 

Clark,   James  H  .............................  37 

Clark,  Thomas  J  ............................  94 

Corrigan,  James  B  .........................  95 

Cottrell,  Gorham  J  .........................  19 

Daugherty,   Jacob    F  .......................  89 

Davis,    Hope   S  ..............................  124 

Dazey,  Charles  T  ...........................  38 

Dickson,   James   ............................  77 

Doerr,  Andrew   .............................  63 

Duker,   William   T  ..........................  64 

Eber,  William   ..............................  79 

Emery,  Joseph  W  ......................  ....  35 

Emery,  Samuel  H.  ,  Jr  ......................  27 

Emmons,  L.  E.,  Sr  .........................  118 

Epler,  Judge  Carl  E  ........................  114 

Ertel,  George  ...............................  65 

Farrar,  Horace  J  ...........................  130 

Flack,   William  S  ...........................  59 

Flynn,  John  J  ...............................  88 


Gardner,  Dr.  Robert  A 
Gardner,   Robert  W, 
Gardner,  Dr.  Thomas  D 
Gordon,  O.   B 
Govert,  William  H 


10S 
10 

109 
60 


93 


120 


Page. 

Halbach,    Frederick   W 55 

Hamilton,  General  E.  B lie 

Hart,    Dr.    Henry 105 

Haselwood,  William  K 128 

Hatch,   Dr.  Henry 101 

Heidbreder,  J.  Herman 44 

Heintz,    Nichlas    

Holt.   Charles   M 124 

Inghram,   John  T ...123 

Irvvln,  Leaton   70 

Johnston,    Dr.    Otis ..106 

Jones,  Gerald  F 51 

Justice,  Dr.  J.  D jQg 

Kendall,  William  E 71 

Kespohl,   Julius    \\  59 

Knapheide,  Dr.  William  S ]03 

Kohl,  Niklaus   ''  64 

Konantz,   Williarn  H 

Lewis,  John  M n 

Lonsdale,   Herbert  L 

Lummis,  H.  F 

McAfee,   Dickerson   

McAdams,   John    

McCann,    Franklin   M 

McClellan,  Lieutenant  John  F 

McConnell,  William  A ..........132 

McKenna,   Lleweylyn   B ..75 

McKinnay,   James   126 

McMein,  William  H '.'.'.'.'.'.'.      '.'.  51 

McNeall,  Rolla  E ...128 

MacMurray,   James   E 62 

Manning,  Thomas  J 133 

Menke,  Frederick  W 26 

Menke,  Henry  B g6 

Menke,   Joseph   B 72 

Miller,    Bernard    H 57 

Moecker,   Herman    91 

Moller,  Henry  H 71 

Montgomery,  Dr.  E.  B 103 

Moore,    William   L 93 

Morgan,  Joseph  L 39 

Myers,   Clarence  A g4 

Myers,   John  W 84 

Nauman,  Dr.  H.   F 109 

Newcomb,   Richard  F 12 

Nichols,   Dr.    F.    E 107 

Nickerson,  Dr.  L.  H.  A 101 

Oehlman,    Charles    82 

Osborn,  Charles  C 48 

Osborn,   E.   H 62 

Osborn,    Frank   W ..80 


Parker,   Edward  J 
Parkhurst,    George   C 
Parkhurst,  Jonathan 
Pearce,   Jackson   R 
Poling,    Theodore   C 
Pope,  Thomas 


.  23 
.  49 
.  39 
.127 
.  43 
.  20 


INDEX— BIOGRAPHICAL— CONTINUED. 


Page. 

Reed,  John  W 44 

Rice,  Dr.  J.  H 100 

Richardson,    William    A 120 

Ricker,  George  E 28 

Ricker,  Henry  F.  J 17 

Robbins,  Dr.   Joseph   97 

Roth,  John  W 126 

Schaef er,   Louis  F 74 

Scblag,    George   J.. 133 

Sehlagenhauf,   William    115 

Schmidt,    Dr.    Albert 104 

Schmitt,   L.   M 89 

Seehorn,   Alfred  A 131 

Sellner,   Albert    94 

Shawgo,    Dr.    J.    B 104 

Sheridan,    Joseph    L 125 

Sholl,  Alexander  36 

Smith,   Albert   R 127 

Slusher,    J.    S 92 

Soebbing,  John  L 74 

Sohm,   Edward    45 

Snmerville,  William   33 

Sommer,  Alcio   13 

Sonnet,    Frank    130 

Sprigg,    James    N 119 

Spry,   Walter   70 

Stahl,   George  H 54 

Steinbach,    John   A 129 

Steinkamp,  Henry  131 

Steinwedell,  William   67 

Stern,    Charles    53 

Stern,  David   53 

Swimmer,   Harris   78 


Page. 

Taylor,  Fred  P 78 

Tellbuescher,   J.   Fred 95 

Tenk,  J.  H 61 

Tenk,   Rudolph   56 

Thuman,    Frederick    86 

Travilla,  Marshall   85 

Trowbridge,   Edward  W 81 

Tubbesing,   Frank 86 

Upham.   Willard   P 25 


VandenBoom,  Joseph  H. 

Vasen,    Benjamin   G 

Volk,    Cornelius   G 


Walsh,  James  J 28 

Walton,  H.  P 76 

Warfleld,  William  S 9 

Wells,   George   22 

Weems,   Jesse    46 

Weems,  Frank  H 47 

Weems,    Milton   K 47 

Whipple,  Dr.  A.  A 102 

Whipple,  Dr.  Henry  L, Ill 

Whitfleld,   Byrom   87 

Williamson,   Charles  H 34 

AVilliamson,  Henry  A 16 

Wilson,   George  H 121 

Wilson,  Dr.   I.   T : ?9 

Wisdom,  John  R 24 

Young,   Elijah  D 58 


INDEX-RESIDENCES. 


Page. 

Botsford,    Edmund   M 52 

Bull,   Charles  H ...134 

Bull,  Lorenzo  4~2 


Carter,  Judge  Joseph  N. 

Cassidy,  J.    W 

Castle,  Chauncey  H 


S6 

42 

73 

Duker,   William   T 52 

Fick,   William   C 18 

Flynn,  John  J 96 

Menke,   Frederick  W 96 


M^acMurray,  James  E. 
Newcomb,   Richard  F. 

Parker,   Edward  J 

Parkhurst,  George  C. 


Page. 

....  73 

....  18 

....  96 

..  52 


Parkhurst,  Jonathan  73 

Poling,  Theodore  C 42 


Ricker,  George  E. 
Stahl,   George   H.. 


73 

IS 

Warfleld,  William  S 18 

Wells,  George   42 

Williamson,  Henry  A 52 


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